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SheilaT

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5. That argument as it related to

Reply to Skittles (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 08:21 PM

Mar 2016

voting and being in combat made sense when there was a draft. No draft these days. The soldiers are all volunteers. And the drinking age is 21 everywhere, even for the soldiers.

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