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I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'