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Post by sdl on May 4, 2009 14:04:43 GMT -5
I have never forgotten...   |
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Post by pumpkinpie on May 4, 2009 15:14:16 GMT -5
What happened 39 years ago today sdl? It was a little before my time so I'm just wondering.
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Post by sdl on May 5, 2009 0:39:39 GMT -5
What happened 39 years ago today sdl? It was a little before my time so I'm just wondering. Kent State. May 4, 1970 Where four students were more or less EXECUTED by Nixon's goons for DARING to protest the illegal invasion of Cambodia. I have never forgotten that infamous day. |
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Post by happyhaddock on May 6, 2009 9:13:01 GMT -5
Kent State. May 4, 1970 Where four students were more or less EXECUTED by Nixon's goons for DARING to protest the illegal invasion of Cambodia. I have never forgotten that infamous day. IIRC those killed weren't protesting - they were watching or passing by. |
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Post by sdl on May 6, 2009 10:06:32 GMT -5
Kent State. May 4, 1970 Where four students were more or less EXECUTED by Nixon's goons for DARING to protest the illegal invasion of Cambodia. I have never forgotten that infamous day. IIRC those killed weren't protesting - they were watching or passing by. Jeffrey Miller was a protester. What's sad is that some pro-war people said because they were long haired they deserved to die and they were traitors...the usual right-wing crap. One pro-war sticker said "The Kent State Four/Should Have Studied More" I've always held Nixon responsible for this..and I know if Bush had been around back there, more would have been shot..or jailed. |
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Post by shirleyhaywald on Jul 11, 2009 3:15:58 GMT -5
You need to get ALL of your facts straight. Nixon had NOTHING to do with the shooting during a full-blown assault against our men and women in uniform.
"On Thursday, 30 April, protests had erupted as President Richard M. Nixon revealed that American troops had entered neutral Cambodia to attack Viet©\cong sanctuaries. The next day at Kent State, a peaceful campus protest was followed in the evening by a disruptive disturbance in downtown Kent that prompted Ohio's Republican governor, James Rhodes, to declare a civil emergency and call out the National Guard.
On Saturday, arsonists burned the ROTC building on campus. After clashes between students and guardsmen on Sunday, authorities banned a noon rally planned for Monday, 4 May. When two thousand students gathered on campus anyway, the guardsmen first used tear gas to disperse the crowd and then, a few seconds later, for reasons never fully explained, twenty©\eight guardsmen fired more than sixty shots that killed four students¡ª Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Allison B. Krause, William K. Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer¡ªand wounded nine others."
More: The disturbances in Kent had grown serious over the weekend. Store windows had been smashed in town, radicals had burned down the ROTC building, firemen had been driven off by mobs slashing hoses and throwing stones, and the Kent city police were unable to cope with the situation. There were MANY injuries amongst the National Guardsmen and other Law Enforcement Officers.
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