Emily Fou, a rising eighth grade student at Thomas Grover Middle School in West Windsor, was awarded the E Pluribus Unum Special Prize at this year’s National History Day National Contest for ...

The war in Vietnam was an unpopular and unwinnable conflict. For eligible young men in 1969, the draft lottery resulted in a blending of fate, luck, happenstance and destiny.

Shortly before regionals, Fou conducted an interview with Vietnam War veteran Richard Burr, who, to Fou’s great surprise, crossed paths with her project’s inspiration.