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In reply to the discussion: when obama is renominated ,will biden also be renominated? [View all]Ferret Annica
(1,701 posts)in April of 1969 at the Morgan School in Clinton, CT. Some copped out and brought in sick slips, but many felt they had nothing to ba ashamed of. They had tried to keep people from going with that threat of administrative action the week before.
I got grounded for a while after I went against my Mother's wishes and it was my first suspension. In response to those suspensions which saw people removed from the Student Council over their suspensions we had a sit down strike at the school.
When i went to See Senator McGovern it was also against my Mother's wishes, but by October 1972, my feelings on the war were deeply personal having gotten my first taste of dissent and realizing the consequences were well worth suffering for engaging in it as a high school student.
My favorite teacher in High School was a man who was fresh out of Yale who used the Vietnam Curriculum in our Western Civilization class to teach us about the war. That was a teaching product that had quite a bit of controversy, and production of it was hurt when those workers doing the printing destroyed plates used in the printing of it in I believe upstate New York.
I owe that teacher a lot. As my Mom was very Republican, and I had been for Richard Nixon for POTUS in 1968. Anyone who says an extraordinary teacher cannot make much a difference knows nothing.
Alas, he lasted one year and was replaced by a combo football coach/social studies teacher who would assign chapters to read and have people answer the odd or even questions at the back of some very dull dumbed down for big market states textbooks.
There should be a memorial for antiwar protesters, especially from that era, because I well know I just got a taste and suffered for my actions a very little bit.
Some paid a huge price for antiwar protesting, and not just at Kent State. Pardon the long post, I get very emotional about this time in my life and I have deep feelings about it.