• Originally published April 8, 2011 at 8:24 p.m., updated April 10, 2011 at 3 p.m.

Editor, the Advocate:

In response to Alaska lowering the drinking age:

Eighteen-year-olds have 15-, 16-, and 17-year-old friends in high school while 21-year-olds generally have 20-, 22-, and 23-year-old friends.

When the legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21, all alcohol-related crime and accidents went down.

Instead of letting a military member drink at 18 because he/she is old enough to be sent to war, why not change the age of which the military member can be sent to war. Not join the military, just be deployed. Eighteen is too young anyway. Most people who go to college at age 18 end up questioning a lot of their beliefs and coming home different, hopefully wiser people. Going to war that young changes your perspective as well. Just ask that poor military member who can't figure out where his humanity went.

Sandra Molina, Edna

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