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hooray.

depression's no fun if you cant drink.

"The lower drinking age would help teens by giving them a choice on how to run their lives."

Even though I am on your side, Edward, this is a pretty weak argument. Consumption of alcohol usually leads to more bad decisions than good ones. It's best you leave this one out when making your case for lowering the drinking age.

Edward, the government is your friend--an older, wiser friend. Why would it let you choose anything, since it knows better? And not only is government wise; it is beneficent, too, dispensing billions of its own dollars to help people just like you. Let's not question the government: it's there to help. Instead, let's just quietly and respectfully wait until we're 21 to buy beer.

(Or just do like everybody else and get a fake ID.)

Edward, the government is your friend--an older, wiser friend. Why would it let you choose anything, since it knows better? And not only is government wise; it is beneficent, too, dispensing billions of its own dollars to help people just like you. Let's not question the government: it's there to help. Instead, let's just quietly and respectfully wait until we're 21 to buy beer.

(Or just do like everybody else and get a fake ID.)

"The lower drinking age would help teens by giving them a choice on how to run their lives."

For a second, I thought you said "ruin" their lives.

I understand your plight. I'm 47 years old, have been married, have voted, and been disqualified for serving in the military.

And I still can't buy pot.

Pot's easier to get than liquor when you're underage.

Actually, one can enlist at 16 1/2 and report for duty on one's 17th birthday...I know because I graduated high school early, and went off to boot camp the summer after my 17th.
At one time some states (Georgia, Wisconsin, California, et al.) made exception to the drinking age for active duty military. I am not sure but I understand that the exception is based on Federal law and is still in force. The problem at that time, of course, was lack of knowledge on the part of bar owners and bouncers, meaning one could gain access only near military bases where bar owners were only too eager to comply with the law. States were allowed to enforce stricter rules and thereby bar active duty military despite the Federal exception.
I think it is ludicrous to expect someone to willingly make the choice to go into battle and then pretend they are not wise enough to choose to drink a beer. We should make the Federal drinking age exemption mandatory for active duty military nationwide and require compliance for any establishment seeking a permit to sell or serve alcoholic beverages. All that is required to be served is proof of age or an active duty military identification card.
If we cannot do that, we should then raise the age for enlistment to 21. This is a simple case of hypocrisy on the part of those that advocate a high drinking age.
My son had his last three birthdays in Iraq. His most recent tour (the "surge") lasted 15 months during which he had his 21st and 22nd birthdays. Yet before he left for this deployment, at age 20, he could not legally possess or consume a beer. Plain and simple hypocrisy.

This is but a tempest in a teapot.