Anniversary Today: Kent State Shootings of May 4, 1970

[shana]

Music to accompany this thread:

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Better audio, this one:

[video=youtube;9GXtQfXBAmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXtQfXBAmM[/video]

 

[Thyme]

Been listening to Neil Baby tonight... god I love that man. I went on a walk out from high school in White Rock in May 1970..we walked all those miles to the Peace Arch border to protest the Vietnam war..on the way I stopped by my house and picked up my little brother..going for a walk Ma ;-)...and here we are 'Children of a Common Mother'.

 

[Astrella613]

OHIO, horrible, awful! Could one ever forget? I was of college age then. That had an awful impact on our generation. Could you even imagine that happening now?

 

[RLynne]

I was born a few years after the shootings at Kent State. The first time I ever really heard about it (as well as hearing "Four Dead in Ohio") was in a high school political science class. I remember going home and talking to my dad about it, because I thought the musical reaction was so cool...we then had a very interesting conversation about the Vietnam War ear (after he dug through his record collection and played the song for me).

It was interesting because, although my dad told me that a big part of the reason he participated in the ROTC as an undergrad (and continued on to grad school) was because he didn't want to be drafted (and filled me in on why), he also had some pretty strong views on the anti-war movement--he was a grad student at UW Madison at the time of the Sterling Hall bombing (and, in fact, his office was either in Sterling Hall, or next door, I can't remember). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bombing