What were your feelings and thoughts when you first opened your draft notice?

Here is another perspective on the question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/opinion/what-it-was-like-to-be-drafted.html

ROFLMAO.....I was in the Navy two years before mine was delivered to my home in Pa. I happened to call home and was told about it. I laughed and told my mother to ignore it if they couldn't figure that out it was their problem.

I took the bus to Norfolk the next morning with one change of clothing and told my Mom to wait 3 days before calling them to tell them I had joined the Navy. I walked into the recruiting office and said "sign me up". I almost aced the test they gave me. I was on a bus to the Richmond processing center that night, paperwork and physical the next day, and RTC Great Lakes the next. First duty station? Cam Rahn Bay.

CARPET NUKE ALL OF VIETNAM DAY IN DAY OUT ---

I had a high draft number, for which I was grateful, as my intention was to enter the military as a Chaplain, which I did. My dad was a retired CW4 so military service was always in our family a good thing.

Relief that I had already signed up for the Air Force.

Hey, I've been cheated! I never got one. I volunteered.

I had a low number, so I knew I was gonna be drafted. So I went down to see the USAF recruiter and he gave me the AQE test among others, which I passed with 95s... I went home to think about it and got my notice a few days later. I called up the recruiter and asked him what I should do. He said since I had taken the tests I should just join the Air Force, which I did.
After basic I was sent to electronics school at Keeler AFB, where I was able to wash through all my classes and get stationed at Griffith AFB where I fixed the air navigation and radar guidance equipment aboard B52 and KC135 tankers... I froze my butt off in upstate NY, even though I had volunteered for SE Asia...
While I was not an enthusiastic volunteer, I came to value what I learned in the USAF and has served me well all my life. And now I've found it was more than worth it due to my VA benefits.
To the guys suffering from PTSD and was injuries I tip my hat. You carried the load for all of us "lucky" guys. You have my admiration and respect.

MY draft # was 360 I enlisted I went through Basic with the last batch Of draftees August 72. I never worried about my Draft #.

brightened my day was already in AIT