The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered to 18 in the United States

An eighteen year old can commit the same crime as someone the age of twenty-one and will get charged the same way and yet do not have the same perks. With the age of eighteen come many responsibilities
According to CNN's count of casualties completed February 10, 2006, of the 2,267 American soldiers that died in the war in Iraq, 396 of the were soldiers under the age of twenty one. That is 396 men and women that died defending their country, yet could not legally sit at a bar and drink a beer. Sounds crazy right? Some people argue with this point that soldiers can drink on base no matter the age, but this still means hypothetically speaking one could go fight in a war, return home and not be allowed to have a social drink with friends.
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