I've decided to throw my "considerable" influence behind the 18 year old drinking. I'm not sure that it would make the world a better place, but certainly a more just one. I was imagining some 18 year old kid joining the Marines, fighting in Iraq, and getting discharged at 19 for some injury which isn't really debilitating. He comes home after having killed people, having seen friends killed, etc., and he can't go to a bar and have a beer? Nothing excuses that.