Dear Editor:
The Department of Defense has issued a policy that states people from Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, New Mexico and Washington will not be able to visit military installations using drivers licenses from their respective states.
Our son is a career soldier in the U.S. Army currently serving in the Middle East (Jordan). He is scheduled to return to Fort Riley in July after what will be his fourth deployment. We will be unable to attend his homecoming because we both have Missouri drivers license and do not have a passport. We will have to wait until he completes his processing and meet him off post.
It is inconceivable that the Missouri Legislature, for whatever reason, has remained in non-compliance with federal law (REAL ID Act of 2005). Can the rest of the 45 states, Washington D.C. and even our territories be all wrong about this issue and only the most narrow minded of states still refuse to comply?
Once again Missouri languishes in the backwater of progress while the rest of nation moves forward.