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"Tell me, Father, did they aim?"
May. 4th, 2005 11:49 pmIt happened 35 years ago today, at a small state-run college in northeast Ohio.
Many colleges and universities had student-led protests against the US involvement in Vietnam. UC Berkeley had them. So did SUNY/Buffalo, where city police came on campus and used tear gas on the students protesting in/around the old Norton Union. But one school gained notoriety because protesting students were shot, wounded, and killed by National Guard troops that were called in by Governor Rhodes.
That school is Kent State University.
( Obviously, I was too young to know at the time what was going on )
There is a student group at KSU called the May 4 Task Force. Their mission is to keep alive the memory of the students killed and wounded there, and to promote student activism. Their website (linked above) is a tremendous resource into the events leading up to, and of, that dark day in our history. [Updated 5/5/05 00:08 EDT] Or it can be, if they'd populate it with more data. A few of their pages are merely placeholders at this time.
I see many parallels between the Vietnam War and the current Iraq War. What scares me the most is that in this post-9/11 world, is that dissidence is becoming tantamount to treason.
Many colleges and universities had student-led protests against the US involvement in Vietnam. UC Berkeley had them. So did SUNY/Buffalo, where city police came on campus and used tear gas on the students protesting in/around the old Norton Union. But one school gained notoriety because protesting students were shot, wounded, and killed by National Guard troops that were called in by Governor Rhodes.
That school is Kent State University.
( Obviously, I was too young to know at the time what was going on )
There is a student group at KSU called the May 4 Task Force. Their mission is to keep alive the memory of the students killed and wounded there, and to promote student activism. Their website (linked above) is a tremendous resource into the events leading up to, and of, that dark day in our history. [Updated 5/5/05 00:08 EDT] Or it can be, if they'd populate it with more data. A few of their pages are merely placeholders at this time.
I see many parallels between the Vietnam War and the current Iraq War. What scares me the most is that in this post-9/11 world, is that dissidence is becoming tantamount to treason.
