Letter to the Editor: Questioning requirements

Holder of an Iowa driver’s license for 50 years. Veterans designation on driver’s license for many years. DD-214 indicating that I am an honorably discharged veteran. Payer of property taxes in Iowa for many years. Need to bring my social security card, a paid utility bill, and my birth certificate to the DOT to prove who I am in order to get a gold star on my license to board a plane?

I would certainly think that after all of the fees and taxes we have paid, the DOT should be able to easily figure out who most of us are.

Perhaps I walked into the wrong office. It seemed as though I needed the department of redundancy department.

Rod Snodgrass

Newton