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The 2010 issue of Vietnam magazine revisits those days in the article, â Live from Washington, Itâs Lottery Night 1969! !â. 366 blue plastic capsules contained the birthdays that would be chosen in the first Vietnam draft lottery drawing on December 1, 1969. The first birth date drawn that night, assigned the lowest number, â001,â was September 14.
Before the lottery was implemented in the latter part of the Vietnam conflict, there was no system in place to determine order of call besides the fact that men between the ages of 18 and 26 were vulnerable to being drafted. Local boards called men classified 1-A, 18-1/2 through 25 years old, oldest first. This lack of a system resulted in uncertainty for the potential draftees during the entire time they were within the draft-eligible age group. All throughout a young manâs early 20âs he did not know if he would be drafted. A draft held today would use a lottery system under which a man would spend only one year in first priority for the draftâeither the calendar year he turned 20 or the year his deferment ended, whichever came first.