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This is a link to a story written by a lady who lost her son
at Kent State. It's well worth the read.
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On Tuesday, it will be 40 years since my son Jeff was shot and killed on the campus of his college. He and three of his classmates were murdered by the National Guard at an antiwar demonstration at Kent State.<snip>
continue to link below for the story...
This is a link to a story written by a lady who lost her son
at Kent State. It's well worth the read.
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On Tuesday, it will be 40 years since my son Jeff was shot and killed on the campus of his college. He and three of his classmates were murdered by the National Guard at an antiwar demonstration at Kent State.<snip>
continue to link below for the story...
Very sad. It is certainly a little different situation than the liberal idiot who was run over by the bulldozer in Israel.
I think that the Vietnam protestors were wrong, but that did not mean they needed to be be shot. However, having lived through the protests, the National Guard had to be called out several times in my hometown due to violence, burning of cars and buildings. Therefore, the protestors in thier pattern of violence invited the presence of the National Guard. Had the anti-war demonstrators not been so violent in other cities, I doubt that the National Guard would have been called up at all at Kent State. I am not blaming the kid at all for being shot, but the violence of the whole movement demanded that order be restored through force of arms. Only people who did not witness the destruction and violence of the anti-war protestors would disagree.
I was one of the protestors in various places, although not at Kent State, and I was lucky enough not to be murdered for the crime of disagreeing with my government, and I couldn't disagree with you more.
Yes, it was a dark day. And not just in Ohio. The next work day, several of these older, Greatest Generation types huddled outside my office door and in louder tones than were necessary went on about how it was about time and how these kids had it coming to them.
While perhaps the best remembered, this of course was not the only such day from those times.
Last edited by saganista; 05-04-2010 at 08:10 AM..
I sure remember it. Even for those of us who thought very dark thoughts about the government were pretty shocked that our own government would start shooting students.
Kent State is one of those things that makes me think of the tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. He had the potential to be a truly great president, and it could be argued that many of his domestic programs still qualify him as one of the greats. By his decisions in Vietnam, however, he led directly to the election of Nixon, Nixon's domestic crimes, the massacres at Kent State and Jackson State, and the total loss of trust in the government by many of my generation.
Yes, it was a dark day. And not just in Ohio. The next work day, several of these older, Greatest Generation types huddled outside my office door and in louder tones than were necessary went on about how it was about time and how these kids had it coming to them.
Well at least when they called in Swat teams to handle those violent Tea Partiers they did not open fire....yet.
40 years ago today.
A little before my time, but wow - what a dark, dark day in our history.
Anyone old enough to remember first hand?
I just can't believe that could happen in America. Sounds more like Tienanmen square...
I remember it. Right after the summer of love. Things changed.
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Four dead in Ohio
