Originally Posted by
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My older brother and I were in the first draft lottery. My number was 305. My brother had already had his physical so he enlisted in the Coast Guard before his imminent draft notice came. He was up at The Great Lakes naval base on the morning of the first lottery ready to be sworn in when it was decided that anyone could wait for the lottery before finalizing their induction. His number was 345 and he came home the next morning.
My brother enlisted in the Navy, ended up lobbing shells into Viet Nam from off the coast on a destroyer. A couple of my friends were drafted,, one didn't come back and another came back very weird and wanted to return to the war and eventually did. I never saw him again but I don't know what happened to him.
One of my cousins was trained as a sniper. He was over there and punched out an officer, got in a bit of trouble and sent home. He loved to fight.