Speak Out 8/6/05

A citizen in wartime

I'M ALL for homeland security, but I think the government has gone overboard with this driver's license business. If you've had a driver's license like I have for 40 years, it looks as though that you've proven you are a citizen of this country. My husband was born in a backward area of the country hundreds of miles from here. He doesn't have a birth certificate. He was born at home. Even without a birth certificate, the government drafted him to Vietnam. If the government isn't going to let him drive, maybe it could give him back the year of his life he lost over there.