The Lottery

No, not the story by Shirley Jackson, listen to that one here:

https://archive.org/details/NBCPresentsShortStoryTheLottery03141951

This concerns the draft lottery for the Vietnam war.  I was watching this video:

https://youtu.be/ReveGiz38Qo?t=426

when it came to this section:

This was the class of 1972, I was in the Nicolet class of 1973 so I looked up the numbers:

Also saw this NY Times story:

Of course by that time Tricky Dick and Hank Kissinger had implemented their secret plan to end the war and Mel Laird had made sure that sons of Republicans wouldn't have to worry about being drafted.  So it didn't apply to me although I did have to get a draft card.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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