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Little-Known Candidate Fighting for Your Future Today's column is for men - not just any men - men my age. Relax, I'm not going to ask you out. I just wonder - if you wonder - what your chances would have been had the Vietnam War continued a few more years and you'd gotten drafted. We know, using figures from the 1969 draft lottery, that half of you would have been selected for service. And half of that group would have actually served. The other half of those selected would get dismissed for some reason - like a felony conviction, an education deferment or a health issue.

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Little-Known Candidate Fighting for Your Future

Today's column is for men - not just any men - men my age.

Relax, I'm not going to ask you out.

I just wonder - if you wonder - what your chances would have been had the Vietnam War continued a few more years and you'd gotten drafted.

We know, using figures from the 1969 draft lottery, that half of you would have been selected for service. And half of that group would have actually served. The other half of those selected would get dismissed for some reason - like a felony conviction, an education deferment or a health issue.