# Selective Service Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944 "2002-08-08T11:49:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944/1 "2002-08-08T11:49:40Z")

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Is there a web site that has old draft numbers archived? I remember that mine was pretty low (they didn’t take me) but I’ve forgotten what it was.

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944/2 "2002-08-08T15:24:53Z")

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Do you mean draft lottery number? If you do, I don’t know of any website, but I would say that if you went to MPSIMS put your birthdate in the title and posed your question, someone with the same birthdate will remember his lottery number. Or possibly they will recognize their father’s birthdate and call him and find out for you. Or I suppose you could do it in GQ also. Yeah do it in GQ with the date.

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944/3 "2002-08-08T15:28:08Z")

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[Here](http://www.landscaper.net/draft.htm#How's%20your%20%22Luck%20of%20the%20Draw%22?) are the numbers from the 1969 draft. Sep 14 (my son’s birthday) was the #1 date.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944/4 "2002-08-08T15:30:16Z")

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Let’s try that link again…

[1969 Draft numbers](http://www.landscaper.net/draft.htm)

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944/5 "2002-08-08T15:58:21Z")

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zev might also have mentioned that his site contains links to the 1970, 71 and 72 lottery numbers at the bottom of the page.

#26 - I got a II-S, pronto, and by the time I got out of school it was over. There was an interesting window there - guys who were older than me graduated while it was still going on. The year after me me could no longer get II-S’s.

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-service-question/122944/6 "2002-08-08T16:16:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by yabob \*  
> \*\*zev might also have mentioned that his site contains links to the 1970, 71 and 72 lottery numbers at the bottom of the page.  
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Zev might have done so, if Zev looked at the rest of the page. Sorry about that.

Zev Steinhardt