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Last edited Wed May 4, 2016, 12:14 PM - Edit history (1)
We remember: May 4, 1970.
Jeffrey Glenn Miller; age 20
Allison B. Krause; age 19
William Knox Schroeder; age 19
Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20.
stone space
(6,498 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)dembotoz
(16,835 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)KG
(28,752 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)This song....
suffragette
(12,232 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)freebrew
(1,917 posts)Nitram
(22,890 posts)we're finally on our own.
americannightmare
(322 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)GOPblows431
(51 posts)It showed how much of a psychopath Nixon was.
Botany
(70,585 posts)At a news conference in Kent, Ohio, on Sunday May 3, 1970, the day before the Kent State shootings, he said of campus protesters:
"They're worse than the Brownshirts, and the Communist element, and also the Night Riders, and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America." (from wiki)
blue neen
(12,328 posts)appalachiablue
(41,172 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)yellerpup
(12,254 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)MsFlorida
(488 posts)The metal sculpture has never been replaced you can still see where the bullets hit. :-/
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)JeaneRaye
(402 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)46 years.
onenote
(42,763 posts)Four lifetimes lost.
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)HeartLikeAWheel
(19 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)virgdem
(2,126 posts)RIP
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Allison B. Krause; age 19
William Knox Schroeder; age 19
Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)fantase56
(444 posts)bdwker
(435 posts)Last edited Wed May 4, 2016, 02:27 PM - Edit history (1)
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)raccoon
(31,125 posts)Always remember.
This was a mind-blowing, unforgivable tragedy that should remain on the shoulders of coldhearted conservatives.
Hekate
(90,816 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)yardwork
(61,711 posts)democrank
(11,104 posts)I remember it well and think of it often.
TBF
(32,096 posts)Why couldn't they just let those reasonable adults profit off their war?
/sarcasm
K&R
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)cigsandcoffee
(2,300 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)political education started with Kent State.
JEB
(4,748 posts)niyad
(113,573 posts)ecstatic
(32,731 posts)just nominated a guy who would probably order something like that to silence anyone who dared to question him.
Rhiannon12866
(206,033 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)raging moderate
(4,309 posts)rgbecker
(4,834 posts)RIP