Drinking age debate important to youth
      Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopardizing young lives at a critical juncture i...
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U.S. should treat veterans with respect they deserve
      My nephew, U.S. Army Sgt. Coleman Bean, died earlier this month. He was 25, and he took his own life. Coleman signed up for the Army on Sept. 5, 2001, almost seven years exactly to the day he died. He was with the 173rd Airborne, and parachuted into Iraq at the start of the invasion. He served hi...
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