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Ralph Mowery

In article ,
says...

That was precisely why the voting age was lowered along with the
drinking age, for a while, until the prohibitionists raised it back up
to 21. We had far too many combat vets coming home from Vietnam, who
couldn't buy a drink or vote.

I knew about the voting age, but never knew the drinking age was ever
lowered. In NC where I live back in the late 1960's it was 18 to drink
beer, not sure about wine,and 21 for the 'hard' stuff. Later it was
raised to 21 for all.