GaryMrMets
01-09-2007, 11:22 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/487056p-409992c.html
Army vets give arm & leg -
but can't get drink
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The retired New York City Firefighter Flip Mullen tells of an encounter with a 19-year-old soldier named Keith whose only complaint had nothing to do with having lost a leg in Iraq.
"He said, 'I can't get a drink,'" Mullen recalls.
Keith meant he was considered old enough to go to war but too young to go into a bar or a nightclub. He is among some 5,000 G.I.s who were wounded in Iraq when they were not yet 21. Exactly 550 have been killed before they were of an age to have a legal beer.
Army vets give arm & leg -
but can't get drink
http://www.nydailynews.com/images/columnists/daly_m.gif
The retired New York City Firefighter Flip Mullen tells of an encounter with a 19-year-old soldier named Keith whose only complaint had nothing to do with having lost a leg in Iraq.
"He said, 'I can't get a drink,'" Mullen recalls.
Keith meant he was considered old enough to go to war but too young to go into a bar or a nightclub. He is among some 5,000 G.I.s who were wounded in Iraq when they were not yet 21. Exactly 550 have been killed before they were of an age to have a legal beer.