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Originally Posted by Ross
This is what I don't understand with the USA. You can get married and own a gun at 16 but can't have an alcoholic drink at your own wedding to celebrate. You have to wait 5 years. The rest of the world is 18 for the most part, around the time you are done High School or in your first year of College/University. Perfect time to be legal to drink alcohol, you already made massive life decisions, I think you can handle some booze.
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When I was in the Marines I was seventeen and wasn't allowed to drink. Go figure.
However, on base the legal drinking age was 18 and in town... Well, no one really carded back then. No one cared.