I was a bit worried when I saw the headline for that reason. I forgot the US is an outlier with being perfectly OK with sending kids to war before they can legally drink alcohol

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

It used to be that the draft age was lower than the voting age in many states. There was a constitutional amendment during the US-Vietnam War to drop the voting age to 18 because if you're old enough to be forced to fight in a war, you're old enough to have a say in the war.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Used to be if you could go to war you could drink on base, but they took that away years ago.