[Past Your Eyes]

Absolutely good. Whose bright idea was it to bump the voting age from 21 back to 18 anyway? That was stupid from the start.

[oh8eleven]

Whose bright idea was it to bump the voting age from 21 back to 18 anyway?
How about the 18, 19 and 20 year olds who were sent off to Vietnam by politicians they never voted for.

[USS Alaska]

Absolutely good. Whose bright idea was it to bump the voting age from 21 back to 18 anyway? That was stupid from the start.

When we were drafted at 18 to go overseas in the 50's and 60's and get our asses shot at, we thought it might be fair to allow us to vote.

They got rid of the draft, maybe they should have changed the law to allow only military to vote at 18.

[bill1952]

I never did agree with the draft - aside from filling the ranks with people who didn’t want to be there, it is my opinion that 18 is to young to be in combat.

Certainly I do not agree with high school kids voting.
Never did, even when I was a teen in the 60s & early 70s.

If recruitment of teenagers is needed, then perhaps a tiered system would be better, where, except in cases of real emergency, you may not serve in combat units, but be relegated to other support duties with pay and benefits reflecting such.

In WWII the average age in the military was higher - in the mid 25s I believe.

Returning the voting age to 21 would, at least, improve the maturity of the average voter...