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<p>I graduated high school in 70, at 16 and when the lottery came
around for me, I had a number over 300, so I did not get drafted.
I had several high school classmates that did not return. My dad
was a WWII vet, but he told me that if I enlisted to wait until I
had my degree. I have wished many times that I had served.
Several years later I tried to enlist in the guard so I could get
helicopter training. At the time they had enough pilots and did
not have a need for someone my age. Since I was a state employee
and knew several of the guard pilots, I could have pushed things a
little and got in. I had just built my house and was in the
middle of getting the farm back in order so I had to put that on
hold....<br>
Cecil<br>
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<p>I had several different deferments during Vietnam (never
served). First, when I registered for the draft at 18 I was
still in high school. While I was still in high school, I
started electronics school. I got a deferment for that. Then
when I graduated from tech school in '68, I went to work for
Texas Instruments in their defense division and received a
different deferment. I was repairing radar systems for the F4
Phantom, A7 Corsair II and P3 anti-submarine aircraft. When the
draft lottery came around in '69, I was already 21 and they were
only drafting 19 year old guys. I had a high school friend that
was sent to Vietnam, He was pretty crazy before he enlisted, but
his experiences as a door gunner on a Huey changed him
drastically. Another of our mutual friends went to see him out
in California and he said that Butch had become pretty anti
social and really didn't want to see any of us. He came home
physically intact, not so much with his psyche.<br>
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<div>My employer kept me out of Vietnam in the mid 1960's but
I didn't know about it until I was told by someone later.
Then when they did the lotteries in I think 1969 I was just
barely too old to be included. I was born in 1942 but the
lottery draws started including those born in about 1943 /
44 I believe.</div>
<div>I had some friends who went and some co workers who went.
Some didn't come back... Most who came back were changed
forever... One co worker enlisted after his younger brother
was killed. I never heard anything of him again. I know
nothing of his fate. I know that he had a wife and very
young child.</div>
<div>A friend had gone and came back about 1968 or so and we
were best friends for about 45 years. Our kids grew up
together and we were all together constantly. Still he
almost never talked about his time there. On very rare
occasions when it was just he and I he would talk a bit. I
never pushed him. I did learn that his job was to sneak way
out into the hills and call in target locations, "forward
spotter"? I forget. I do remember him once saying that if he
had been there 100 years that he would never have gotten
used to waking up to machine gun fire... He has been gone
about 5 or 6 years now I guess. As you get older time gets
fuzzy... Diana and I currently board a horse for one of his
daughters.</div>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As was my father. 1 class
short of dual engineering degrees in 4 years at NC State,
civil and mechanical. He spent the war developing sound
tracking torpedoes for the Navy, spending time at sea. As
an engineer, not in uniform. He would have been in his 30s.
Sadly polio killed him four months before I was born in 52.
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Brad<br>
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My dad was called up for WII, but didn’t serve. His boss
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