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Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - Dennis S - 05-05-2010
I heard someone on the radio today who said it wasn't important enough to be in the history books. I disagree.
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - dreed2 - 05-05-2010
I remember it and it was very important. That person on the radio probably wasn't alive back then. I was in high school during that time and we all decided to go to our football field to lower the flag to half-mast in honor of the dead students at Kent State. It was an inner-city school and our football field was about four blocks away. As we started leaving the school to walk to the football field, they started locking the doors to prevent us from leaving. We climbed out the windows. As we walked down the street, people were coming out of their houses and holding American flags and cheering for us. We got to the football field and the paddy wagon was waiting there. The cops made a circle around the flagpole and drew their guns on us. Thinking that we were going to be shot down too, like the students at Kent State, we started running away. Men in suits blocked the exits from the field and were asking us all kinds of questions like who organized the demonstration, what our names were, etc. etc. I told the guy who cornered me that I didn't know who organized it and gave him a fake name and address just to get outta there before I was shot. Yes, it was important!
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - davester - 05-05-2010
That person on the radio is an uninformed dolt. I was in high school, worrying about getting drafted and totally aware of and in support of all the unrest revolving around the war. To realize that american soldiers would actually gun down unarmed students was mindblowing beyond belief.
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - Mac1337 - 05-05-2010
Vaguely remember it. Horrible day. BTW, they were not "soldiers". Were they drafting British people to go to war in Vietnam?
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - Ted King - 05-05-2010
I was a sophomore in college when it happened. It was a big deal to me and all my friends. Emotions ran really strong. I think it is one of those things that are important to the generation that lived through it (it was one of the most climactic events of the anti-Vietnam War movement), but will fade quickly in significance for later generations.
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - Don Kiyoti - 05-05-2010
I noticed that Fox/Washington Times ran an article blaming the killings on the protesters.
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - Acer - 05-05-2010
No one there did anything that deserved death that day. There's no way to argue past that cold fact.
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - davester - 05-05-2010
Don Kiyoti wrote:
I noticed that Fox/Washington Times ran an article blaming the killings on the protesters.
Those SOBs! Have they no shame?
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - kj - 05-05-2010
Ted King wrote:
I was a sophomore in college when it happened. It was a big deal to me and all my friends. Emotions ran really strong. I think it is one of those things that are important to the generation that lived through it (it was one of the most climactic events of the anti-Vietnam War movement), but will fade quickly in significance for later generations.
I think you're right. I was 4yrs. at that time, and it frankly hasn't meant much to me. kj.
Re: Anyone remember Kent State 40 years ago today? - Lux Interior - 05-05-2010
The protesters were not blameless. Maybe the protesters had a camera with a long lens that looked like an RPG? Maybe they were trying to prevent the protesters from straying into traffic?