On December 1st, 1969, America held its first draft since 1942. With the war in Vietnam as a , the futures of some 850,000 young men were on the . A bin contained 366 , one for each possible : the order in which they were decided the order in which the young men would be . The first date was September 14th, the last one June 8th.
soon said the lottery was not : dates near the end of the year had been at the top of the bin. In the end, only men with numbers 1 to 195 were to duty; the others were home . America ended the draft in 1973 and has relied on voluntary ever since.
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