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- about six weeks before the draft lottery drawing
My number was 32!
I started college not long after; I had taken the Army physical and tests, scored well enough for Officer training... but I got a 6 mo Deferment because of an ulnar nerve problem; apparently they were afraid I couldn't hold up a rifle.
After that, they never contacted me again, and sure as F didn't contact them!
Officer training was 6 weeks, then being dropped into the front lines to lead experienced Units who were just as likely to shoot the inexperienced Officer than the were the Viet Cong.
Muhamad Ali, who had been a boxing hero of mine, became an antiwar hero to me, too:
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MPGA!