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My sister's niece from Cleveland was a student at Kent State
when the shootings occurred. I was 22 and living in southern New Jersey.
It wasn't as hard to comprehend at that time given the climate. I now can't even fathom National Guardsmen going onto a campus and shooting students, but I could then with Nixon and that crowd.
We were shocked and horrified, but we had just gone through and extremely violent and bloody Civil Rights movement, and this sort of felt like it may be the beginning of round two of the Govt. vs. the People.
Just how me and my crowd felt.