His draft number was 21, so while he waited to see if he would be chosen to serve, he drove an ambulance in Chicago.

A very high draft number, in those days, helped a man to keep calm about the war.

I'd been old enough to serve in Vietnam, but had avoided conscription because of a fortuitously high draft number.

But they know that having a great career is more important than having a great draft number.

The list was as scrutinized as anxiously as draft numbers in an earlier generation.

Clinton didn't simply escape military service with a high draft number.

He was unlucky enough to have a high draft number, and in December 1970 he got his notice.

My draft number was 351, and they stopped taking people at 120.

There is gloom when an underclassman looks more closely at the draft numbers.

A spokesman for Mr. Bush said the governor had received the short form, this year's equivalent of announcing you got a high draft number.