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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
(16,799 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)This song....
suffragette
(12,232 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)freebrew
(1,917 posts)Nitram
(22,791 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
(70,490 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
(12,319 posts)appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)yellerpup
(12,253 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
(26,619 posts)46 years.
onenote
(42,694 posts)Four lifetimes lost.
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)HeartLikeAWheel
(19 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)virgdem
(2,124 posts)RIP
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)Allison B. Krause; age 19
William Knox Schroeder; age 19
Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)fantase56
(443 posts)bdwker
(435 posts)Last edited Wed May 4, 2016, 02:27 PM - Edit history (1)
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)Always remember.
This was a mind-blowing, unforgivable tragedy that should remain on the shoulders of coldhearted conservatives.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)democrank
(11,092 posts)I remember it well and think of it often.
TBF
(32,047 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
(113,259 posts)ecstatic
(32,685 posts)just nominated a guy who would probably order something like that to silence anyone who dared to question him.
Rhiannon12866
(205,209 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)raging moderate
(4,297 posts)rgbecker
(4,826 posts)RIP