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4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - Rick-o - 05-04-2015
Dang! How could this have even happened? (and how could that many years have passed already?).
What a disgrace that the people in control could even order such an attack. I was only 12 YO when it happened, and I remember being disgusted about the whole damn affair.
Not our Country's finest moment, for sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
EDIT: Think, Rick-o! It was 45 years ago, not 40! :facepalm:
EDIT 2: Here's the CSNY song with a few pics of the shootings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX95QSKBODo&spfreload=10
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 40 Years Ago Today - blooz - 05-04-2015
Agreed.
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-04-2015
Another anniversary that recently passed: the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 saga.
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - AllGold - 05-04-2015
I never knew this before but according to the Wikipedia article, some students were bayonetted by Guard members in the previous day or days of protest leading up to the shootings.
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - Buzz - 05-04-2015
Another week and half, and People's Park (Berserkeley) will be having its 46th anniversary...
not quite a couple of years removed from the "Summer of Love" across the SF Bay.
Tricky Dick may have opened the door to China, but an awful lot of bad poop happened on his watch...
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Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - OWC Jamie - 05-04-2015
Our Administrations are still rife with teachable moments.
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - Speedy - 05-05-2015
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,"
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - blooz - 05-05-2015
A well regulated militia isn't the problem, it's the idiots who give it the orders and take "well-regulated" out of the equation.
Some may differ with me, but as one who survived them, I believe what we call the sixties started in 1963 and ended with the Vietnam war. There was some beautiful stuff happening, some really inspiring stuff happening, and some really fracking depressing and terrible stuff happening. Glad i was there, wouldn't want to go back.
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - BCam - 05-05-2015
Yeah, I remember the day. I was a Senior at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
It was the day that I became cynical.
Re: 4 Dead In O-HI-O... 45 Years Ago Today - RgrF - 05-05-2015
That, clearly illegal killing, was then whitewashed by an Ohio grand jury. Were such an outrage to occur today (seems it does daily in cities and states nationwide) you'd probably get that same decision to not prosecute.
We did ourselves and our nation a great disservice when we responded by eliminating the draft and going all volunteer, another of the many unintended consequences that only become clear in retrospect.