All of the caveats are irrelevant, William, because I don’t care whether the drinking age — of whose existence I, having no interest in alcohol, was all but unaware — has had any effect on drunk-driving casualties at all. The drinking-age itself is merely an evasion of any serious effort to stop behavior — drunk-driving — that I want stopped and about which, I sense, you and other persons who are quick to respond as you responded to Mr. Kimball’s article are insufficiently concerned. Student alcohol-poisoning fatalities or whatever similar phenomena trouble the signatories of the Amethyst Initiative never get my attention — but if students of the type involved can find a way to drive drunk so as to kill themselves only, I will now form a committee to pay for the drinks. I really don’t care what is granted or denied to servicemen, as long as they’re far away from me — which is where, I’d guess, they’d be pleased to be located themselves.