"B2431" wrote in message
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From: Mike Marron

Hiya Mary. I didn't get into the details with B2421 because it simply
isn't worth my time arguing with a humorless old prude/killjoy, but
suffice to say that we mostly got tastes of wine at the dinner table
and only on special occasions such as Thanksgiving and Christmas,
etc. No big deal. Sheesh!

You said you drank beer with your father's buddies.

Assuming you turned 20, you said you spent your first 20 years on ADC
bases,
when the last ROs left ADC in the early 1970s then the odds are you were
drinking beer illegally. With very few exceptions the nation wide drinking
age
was 21. The exceptions were states like Illinois that allowed 3.2 beer at
18.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I was able to legally purchase beer
at the age of 18, and Mississippi did not sell 3.2 stuff.