Author: William H Rogers
Date: 12:24:31 07/24/02
During the Viet Nam war the draft was in vogue. There came a time when congress was thinking about lowering the voting age to 18. Almost all of them were against it. Then on day the government came to a house in San Jose, California and tried to pick up a young man for advoiding the draft. His mother met them at the door and made the following statement, "According to the laws of this country, I am solely responsible for my son until he reaches the age of 21, therefore I will not let him serve in the military". This made the newspapers and radio and tv stations out here for several days, then it was blacked out. Less than 60 days later, congress voted unamiously to lower the voting age to 18. Now you know the rest of the story. Bill
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