Should the legal drinking age be eighteen or twenty-one? Why don’t we make it nineteen or twenty? It seems to me that we (America) are full of contradictions, and I am not the only one. The Europeans don’t understand why the U.S. allows people under twenty-one to have children, use credit cards, buy real estate, act independently of their parents and defend the country during war time-and yet not allow them to …showed first 75 words of 780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 780 total…this education should start in Junior High School if not earlier. I also strongly believe that the legal age for the consumption of alcohol needs to be re-evaluated. I think that if at the age of eighteen that a person can die for their country, direct the future of their country, and be held responsible for his/her actions as an adult, they should be able to choose if they want to drink or not.