Drinking Age (pt.2)

[Hulud]

I agree that if you serve your country you SHOULD be able to legally drink a beer, but it's a simple fact that you're not fully cooked at 21 let alone at 18.

thats my whole point, not to neccesarily lower it but make it the same as the draft.

i mean if you can be forced to die for your country why cant you even have a beer?

[bdydrpdmazda]

thats my whole point, not to neccesarily lower it but make it the same as the draft.

i mean if you can be forced to die for your country why cant you even have a beer?

nobody is forced to do anything in the military, thats why so many hippies feel so sorry for the people in the war,because they feel we were forced to come here, we ALL volunteered our services to our country knowing the risks when we did it.

[Hulud]

nobody is forced to do anything in the military, thats why so many hippies feel so sorry for the people in the war,because they feel we were forced to come here, we ALL volunteered our services to our country knowing the risks when we did it.

you obviously did not read what i wrote here let me bold it for you

thats my whole point, not to neccesarily lower it but make it the same as the draft.

i mean if you can be forced to die for your country why cant you even have a beer?

last i checked the draft was where you were FORCED to fight in the military

[bdydrpdmazda]

you obviously did not read what i wrote here let me bold it for you


last i checked the draft was where you were FORCED to fight in the military

last I checked there was no drinking age when the draft was last enforced.

[Hulud]

last I checked there was no drinking age when the draft was last enforced.

well you need to check again apparently

my dad was almost drafted for vietnam and the age in california at that time was 21 he didnt get drafted because they stopped the draft 2 months before his birthdate was called on.


"Twenty-nine states lowered their drinking ages to 18 between 1970 and 1975," Norelli told the House committee members

[Jaimecbr900]

thats my whole point, not to neccesarily lower it but make it the same as the draft.

i mean if you can be forced to die for your country why cant you even have a beer?

I do see your point, but in the Armed Forces you always have someone higher up in the chain of command overseeing you too. You don't just go rouge and Rambo and start shooting just for kicks.

If you turn all the 18 yr olds loose, who is going to be overseeing them? The Armed Forces serve as defacto parent to their soldiers and set rules for them and oversee them. There is no such thing in the general public, especially if the law backs them up.

I do see what you're saying though.