Reply #3: I kind of hate this, because the more this 25-year-old man is treated like a child, the more what

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he did can be treated like a "youthful prank." As other posters pointed out on other threads, O'Keefe is two years older than the alleged underwear bomber, he's a year older than Lee Harvey Oswald. Where were you at 25? I had just returned to the States after working in Russia almost two years and was about to get married. Treating him like a child might be an "indignity," but I do think it reinforces the idea of him as a mischievous man-child who was just having some fun.