draft age opinion

People under the age of twenty one are not psychologically fit to go to war. Eighteen is the youngest age you can be to join the war without a parents’ permission, which is still a very young age in this society. The legal drinking age is only twenty one in America. If young adults can not drink legally they should not be allowed to go overseas and experience the terrorizing war scene. In the book NAM the author writes “Next I had to kick one dead body in the side of the head until part of his brain started coming out the other side.” (Baker 59) Older soldiers made the young cadet do this just to get the feeling of killing Vietnamese people. Even though he was throwing up simultaneously and to the point of dry heaving, they still made him kick until they were satisfied. Eighteen to twenty one year olds are still developing and if they see the things that go on during wars, their lives will be ruined forever and could mentally changed. Life long friends are made during late teens and early twenties and if young people go to war and their friends get killed right beside them they are going to be afraid of getting close to someone because they fear losing them. Most young adults haven’t even experienced many deaths and going from high school to a war full of dead bodies will affect them forever. Suppose an eighteen to twenty one year old is uncertain about their career future. He sees a commercial about the military and it persuades him to want to join. Unfortunately, he gets sent overseas to the war and gets killed in his early twenties. This raises the question: Are eighteen to twenty one year olds psychology mature enough to go to war?
A young boy from Queens, New York, one of the youngest Americans to be killed since 2003 when the war in Iraq started, was killed when a bomb exploded and hit his humvee on the roadside. He was trained as a weapons mechanic and assigned to the Third Infantry Division. He also volunteered with the 3-7 Calvary weeklong patrol. His