On 09 Jan 2004 02:55:22 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

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.

Kids can be given alcoholic beverages in non-public settings with
their parents' consent in over half the states. I believe he said his
father was present, too.

That means he wasn't doing it illegally.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer