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'Repeal Day' Celebrated

December 10, 2008 12:10 PM

ABC News On Campus reporter Marilia Brocchetto blogs:

What's Repeal Day, you may ask? Well, it has become a day to celebrate the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment, which had banned the sale and importation of alcohol, making it difficult to obtain.

Americans could once again buy and sell alcoholic drinks.

College students are now joining the increasing number of revelers celebrating Dec. 5.

I was confused, to say the least, when I got an invitation to celebrate Repeal Day, but I decided to learn a little more about it.

Facebook read: "Remember, Remember the 5th of December," and "Plans to Repeal and Drink to It."

Students were excited. This year was the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which passed when Utah, the final state needed for a three-quarters majority, joined the effort to repeal Prohibition.

Students here at the University of Florida kicked off the day in a celebratory mood. Florida Senior Megan Farmer says she made Sangria "because I thought it would be fun, like you know how they made their own alcohol."

She threw a little get-together at her place and all her friends came and joined her at the stroke of nine o'clock for their first drink.

She wasn't the only one. Other students celebrated and enjoyed the right to drink legally. No more bootleggers or rum-runners: the students celebrated their Friday night in style.

There was one catch, though. Beer is the drink of choice for most students, but Farmer was having none of it. "My forefathers did not fight for repeal," she said eloquently, "for me to drink crappy beer." She ended up drinking wine and French martinis.

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