“The lotteries” not only changed how the Selective Service chose men for the conflict in Vietnam ... anything—their birthdate. Indeed, that was its intention. The lottery aimed to replace ...

According to Historynet.com, the Dec. 1, 1969, draft lottery ... see if their birthdate would be called early in the telecast, more or less guaranteeing they would be sent to Vietnam.

On December 1st, 1969, America's first military draft lottery since World War II was held. With the war in Vietnam as a backdrop – and the futures of some 850,000 young men (born between 1944-19 ...

"The Vietnam War," PBS and USA Today created a Vietnam War Draft Lottery calculator. Simply enter your birth month and day to find out whether you would have been drafted for wartime service in ...

Finally, those with lower draft numbers had less favorable opinions of the Vietnam War even when interviewed in 1982 and 1997. That is to say, the effect of draft lottery status was evident almost ...

But, if your birth date was among the first ... we were supposed to be fighting for in Vietnam? Maybe it’s time for another version of the draft lottery. Only this time around, let’s make ...

Melvin Judy was wounded four times in Vietnam ... who was hunting the night the lottery took place. But there was a problem. Elslager’s actual birthdate — which was confirmed by officials ...

April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam ... containing a birth date (one for each day of the year, plus leap day). The numbers in the lottery covered ...

MILWAUKEE — Curtis Tarr, the former head of the Selective Service System who oversaw the lottery for the draft during the Vietnam War, has died. Tarr died of pneumonia on Friday at his home in ...

Curtis Tarr, the director of the U.S. Selective Service System who altered the lottery for the draft during the Vietnam War to ... eligible men with the same birth date as the first one drawn ...