Politics – On Sunday, May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on antiwar protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. Neil Young's haunting "Ohio" was penned shortly after an became the anthem of the anti-war movement.
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Nothing, including the constitution gets in the way of blind ideology!
I remember the...what would media call it, 'incident'?... and the significance of it was not lost on this 8th-9th grader. I knew from that point forward that the country I was in was no better than the USSR I was raised to fear and hate. I drew a bullseye on the back of a white t-shirt to imitate those that college students wore for awhile. I remembered Kent State when the recruiters came calling a few years later. I believe another Kent State could happen today and Faux News would be ready.
Point to be made, anger over the government's war was misdirected at our own brothers and sisters who served in the military. This was the worst thing that happened in the 60s.
Today the lesson is learned, but the price paid by many Nam vets was high. I believe the blame lies mostly on the government officials of the time, who scapegoated the soldiers , not only to deflect attention from themselves but on the field of operations as well.
There are many lessons to be learned from Nam. I hope we prove wise enough to have learned them. But I have doubts.
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They were shot dead, because they defied armed National Guardsmen. How stupid is that? Either they were stupid, or all doped up, but sober you do as you are told if the others are armed, and ready to fire on you. You can challange their credibility later if you are alive, dead you cannot do anything.
yeah real brave to shot on unarmed students, bet you thought Tienanmen Square was an atrocity though didn`t you
No, Communist China is now the Corporatist's Bestest buttbuddy. Remember Viet Nam had to be fought to stop Chinese influence, now the same traitors who were willing to spit on you or kill you if you dared question that notion, are simply handing Mao the keys to the Bank.
Sadly, so many people are sheep. They believe anything they are told. Defending the murder of unarmed students is quite a stretch. As if there was no alternative. This frankly was a hate crime, just like today you have these wingnuts in complete denial of history, posting their fascist diatribe here; so too you had the same nutjob extremists pumping those gaurdsmen's heads with hatred for their own neighbors and children of their neighbors. The right to dissent.
The right.
Ani-
I was 12 years old when this happened. In thirteen seconds, the guardsmen had fired sixty-seven rounds and four students lay dead. They were Allison Krause - Age: 19, 110 Yards, William Schroeder - Age: 19, 130 Yards, Jeffrey Miller - Age: 20, 90 Yards, Sandra Scheuer - Age: 20, 130 Yards.
William Schroeder, who was attending Kent on a ROTC scholarship, was shot in the lower back when he was 382 feet away. The bullet exited his shoulder. Bill survived the trip to the hospital but died as he was being wheeled into an operating room. Sandra Scheuer, walking to her next class, was 390 feet from the guard when a bullet severed her jugular vein. She bled to death in the parking lot. Robbie Stamps, about 500 feet away, was shot in the right buttock. Donald Scott MacKenzie was 730 feet away when a bullet struck him in the neck and exited his cheek. MacKenzie would almost certainly have been killed had the bullet that hit him not been deflected prior to the strike.
Some of the dead were not involved in the protest. They too were on their way to class. One was shot in the buttock. Back shooters one could say.
Good God Ani get your facts straight before you start spouting your blind patriotic conservative republican horse pucky.
Those soldiers who were involved in these murders should forever hang their heads in shame for what they did on that Sunday afternoon. They are a disgrace. Ani you to should hang your head in disgrace for your post here today. I am ashamed of and for you.
Why would ani need facts when she has her opinion, twisted as it is.
hdthehn:
I was in Nam when this happened. Under enemy fire.
I still cannot to this day comprehend why this happened. These students were expressing the freedom of speech we were supposedly fighting for.
There were some who cheered this, but very few. This went against the very freedoms we were trying to uphold.
Ani is quite obviously full of bitterness over something. There was no good reason to kill these citizens of the United States of America.
Maybe some forget these were US citizens.
Now when Jane Fonda did what she did. I was all in favor of revoking her US citizenship forever.