05-05-2010, 02:29 AM
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!