What was your lottery number? Mine was 5, but I had already joined the Reserves so I couldn’t be drafted.

It was around 268

I enlisted before getting a number.

212
They wouldn’t let me in. Bad scoliosis.

Mine was 3 so I enlisted.

Mine was 237.

Moosetrot

Didn't have one.

That night they drew, first date up was my dads birthday, well mines probably next. 348 if I remember right.

265

I was born in 1970. My birth date, May 3rd, would of got me drafted, if I had been born between 1944 and 1950, in the 1969 lottery.



Here's a draft calculator if you are curious.

https://draftvietnam.com/#draftcalculator

My dad was born in 1948. He got a high number, wasn't called and didn't volunteer. He was in ROTC in college.

Keith

"fought a losing war on a foreign shore, to find his country didn't want him back"........Poison

It's a good ballad.



Keith

312 for Me.

Wasn't alive then, but if I had been, I'd have actually been ashamed to be an American over the way this country treated the people returning from over there.....

Got my first Drafted notice I was a junior in High School

The draft was eliminated three years before I enlisted.

I enlisted at 17

Last year of the draft, #1 !!!!!!
Never won anything since, lol

Nixon abolished the draft later that year.

If I'm reading this right, if I hadn't enlisted it looks like I would have not been involved much at all...

Your lottery number for the year you were drafted was 88. It was assigned on Wednesday, February 2, 1972. You were drafted in the fourth, and last, draft lottery, in 1973.