May the 4th: remember Kent State

[Cliffy]

May 4, 1970. Four dead in Ohio, shot by National Guardsmen. Campuses across the country were engaged in protests after the White House told everyone that the president had secretly widened the US war in Vietnam into Cambodia and Laos. The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Nowadays nobody'd notice. And there'd be plenty yelling "They deserved it! They didn't comply!" despite the fact that none of the four was involved in the protest.

 

[pgs]

Nowadays nobody'd notice. And there'd be plenty yelling "They deserved it! They didn't comply!" despite the fact that none of the four was involved in the protest.

If I recall correctly, at the time many were saying just that .

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

If I recall correctly, at the time many were saying just that .

Yep, never a shortage of assholes, long on opinions, short on facts.

The sheer joy expressed by the right at the time was interesting.

Of course, now it's become a criterion for qualification as a Real American.