Four Dead in Ohio-post every year

[Lifelong Protester]

[livetohike]

1. We will never forget you Jeffrey, Allison, William and Sandra.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Murdered for protesting war...

another sad memory in our country's history.

[watoos]

9. If I remember right,

one of the murdered was just heading to the library, wasn't even a part of the protest.

[Canoe52]

3. And nobody was ever convicted

[shenmue]

4. Rest in peace

[jimlup]

5. I remember well... this is when I came of age politically

And fittingly it is my daughter's birthday

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. "What if you knew her, and found her dead on the ground?"

A powerful line. I still remember that song from start to finish.

[SCantiGOP]

7. two days after Kent State

The University of South Carolina campus was under a 6pm-6am curfew. Over 300 students were arrested. This got a lot of attention on national news because it was occuring at a conservative, Southern university.

The day the semester ended I went home to meet my Mother in tears telling me that my best friend from first grade had been killed in Viet Nam. The riot and the death of my friend pushed me over the edge into complete radicalism. I went in a little over one year from the head of my High School Young Republicans club to a member of the Student Mobilization Committee.

I am finally seeing that same type of reaction in the students against guns movement. We need a radical student movement to join the rest of us who are fed up with the bullshit the republicans have been shoveling on us for the past several decades.

[erronis]

17. And the University of Kansas - two deaths and lots of destruction

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/apr/20/1970-memories-violence-city-still-strong/

http://www.kansan.com/news/a-generation-ablaze/article_07027d68-c405-5d8c-bb83-23b9adae6449.html

Even tho I was a reasonably law-abiding 20+ I remember feeling the sense of injustice by the Vietnam war and the rush to arms by the constabulary. I agree that only a massive protest against the self-appointed powers-that-be will turn this imminent train wreck around.

[raven mad]

8. Every. Year. n/t

[louis c]

10. I was 17 years old when that happened.

I've been a radical ever since.

[elmac]

11. I think most if not all who were killed

weren't even a part of the demonstrations, were just going between classes and were 250 feet away.

[marble falls]

12. To those responsible....

[Ohiogal]

13. My alma mater

I went there from '74 to '78

Lived in Prentice Hall, next to the statue with the bullet holes in it.

I attended every May 4 vigil while there

So sad that this had to happen. Innocent lives gunned down for protesting a war.

[Cryptoad]

14. Just think what it would have been like if,,,,

them Soldiers had AR-15,,,,,,,

Here in heart of Dumbfuckistan the the local Sunday paper listed at the very top along with Saturday's football scores,,,,,[ Kent State 0, National Guard 4]

not much has changed......the Hate just gets stronger!

[llmart]

15. OMG!

I had never heard that before. That's horrible!

I grew up about 45 minutes from Kent and was 20 years old at the time of the shooting. I couldn't believe what had happened and was conflicted because I knew guys in the ONG and they were only in it to escape going to Nam. Most of them were the same age as the students. Hell, some of them were college students.

[niyad]

16. YES

[Sparkly]

18. .

[struggle4progress]

19. Songs on the death of children

... I often think: they have only just gone out, and now they will be coming back home. The day is fine; don't be dismayed; they have just gone for a long walk ...

[Liberal In Texas]

20. I remember the first time I heard the song.

I was so moved. We of course knew about Kent State, but this work of art brought it home.

Music and other forms of art can have a powerful impact against the tyrants.

We need more of that today.

[lastlib]

21. Thank you for posting this!

VERY IMPORTANT that we remember this seminal event in our history! Military thugs shooting unarmed civilians is a total travesty. There was never justice for the victims--the killers and their bosses skated scot-free.

[Hassler]

22. And some millennials say boomers caused all our problems. Tell it to 58K dead and more maimed