Posted on 06/24/2004 10:24:09 AM PDT by jalisco555
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.
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When I was 19 I lived in a '21 and over' drinking state but used my regular drivers license to buy alcohol. The numb nuts behind the counter couldn't figure it out bacause the age was too close to guess-timate.
In Colorado, 18 year-olds could only get 3.2% beer; hard liquor was available only to those over 21.
And never on a Sunday.
What next?
Marlboro urges lower smoking age. ;)
What ever happened to 3.2 beer? At one time, at least in some states (including CO) they had 3.2 clubs for older teenagers ... they also served 3.2 beer at the enlisted clubs on military installations. The taste was the same as regular beer however you needed to drink a six pack to get a mild buzz.
Technically, you are correct. In practice, the military gives lip service and then actively turns a blind eye to underage drinking by soldiers. As with most things military, there is the official policy and then there is the actual policy.
In my experience on most posts when I was a soldier of non-drinking age, they go through the motions of not allowing underage drinking, but they make it easy to skirt those policies and then don't make any effort to enforce it when people do skirt the policy. Basically, the folks upstairs have to be able to say they implemented a policy and made an effort, at least on paper, even if they aren't going to enforce a policy in practice.
I remember playing golf with my uncle at the Fort Sam Houston golf course in the early 70's and there were several vending machines on the course containing nice cold cervesa. Those were the days. Of course, I was too young at the time to fully apreciate it.
When I was 20, the age was raised to 19 in Texas. A couple of years later it was at 21.
Well, if we ever get a draft again, maybe that might make sense. I'm perfectly OK with making a military ID the equal of a 21-or-older status for any purpose, military discipline has long been able to adequately deal with alchohol abuse by service members.
As for voting and drinking being made equivalent, I'm not sure about that. Maybe if an 18 year old bothers to register and vote, we might consider letting them drown their sorrows over an election result.
I know I felt differently about it thirty years ago, but lately, I'm not unhappy with a 21-year-old drinking age.
Not if it is in Ft. Bliss.
It's for sale in Kansas.
I used to drive across the state line from Pennsylvania to West Virginia. They offered a 3:2 beer to those who were 16. Of course back in the day, if you were caught with a case of beer on the floor of the sled with a butt-load of your friends the police would just tell you to go home.
I think it's a good idea. All of the laws that we have making everything taboo have the opposite effect of the desired result. But beyond that, the way these laws were changed - by having the federal government dangle the purse strings for road construction in front of the lap dog state politicians that will do anything for more money - is really what irks me. The drinking age is a states rights issue.
If you're old enough to be President/Commander-in-Chief, then you're old enough to buy beer.
By "We", does he mean Coors????
I'll bet pedophiles agree with you.....
BOTTOM LINE IS YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY...
"If you're old enough to be President/Commander-in-Chief, then you're old enough to buy beer."
It's 35 to be commander in chief.
I agree. 18 is a good age. We can start the rollback of the PC movement right here.
Not true. That changed in the '90s when DoD caved to the states to honor local laws.
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