4 dead in Ohio

[demtenjeep]

Crosby Stills and Nash

10 Soldiers and Nixon's Army

4 dead in Ohio

[PCIntern]

1. Just watched Brokaw's summary on MJoe

I remember it well. Went to DC as part of the protest. What a time. Many Horrible people thought the kids deserved to be shot: things don’t change.

[Frustratedlady]

15. That gunfire, during his presentation, really hit me, this morning, as did Nixon's image.

I had forgotten how awful the guns sounded, but still echoes throughout history...always will.

I was a young mother, at the time and wondered if I'd done the right thing bringing children into this world.

[demtenjeep]

2. Joe Walsh from The Eagles says this was a defining moment

for him

[demtenjeep]

3. Joe Walsh from The Eagles says this was a defining moment

for him

[malaise]

4. I will never forget that day

[Atticus]

6. "Elephant bells", "Palestine pacers", "tie-dye tees" and the sweet smell of

"Mary Jane" on the quad and then---OUTRAGE!

[lark]

14. Me either, Malaise. It changed my life and my thoughts about power.

I realized they are truly out to kill us if we rock their profitable war boat. I realized the true depths of the right wing hate and was transformed from the straight A student I'd been before that. Learning they were absolutely not to be trusted and would kill us for corporate profits and the war machine radicalized me. I still feel it, still get tears in my eyes everytime I think about this or hear the CSNY song - 4 Dead in Ohio. Such a horrible time then and I fear so much worse is to come and shortly.

[malaise]

16. Same here

[demtenjeep]

5. I was young but I remember my parents

and family and their reactions

[snowybirdie]

7. This was a gamechanger

people turned against the Administration. Many who had supported the Vietnam war, changed their minds. A horrendous crime against young Americans. And it still went on another 5 years.

[Celerity]

9. This was a gamechanger, people turned against the Administration.

Not so much

[yellowcanine]

12. For real. Kent State changed nothing.

I remember many in Nixon's "silent majority" saying the students deserved what they got. Jim Rhodes should have resigned. Instead, he was reelected to two more terms as governor.

[snowybirdie]

13. Antidotially

This happened in my Southside Chicago Catholic neighborhood amongst the 20 somethings. Many of the police present at the 1968 Convention, totally changed in the War issue. It happened in my circle of blue collar, police or fireman and City workers. Plus, our boys were the ones coming home in body bags. Actually, we were on the cutting edge. Look what happened to all those red states just two years after that election.

[DEbluedude]

8. I was in the 7th grade.

Another moment in my youth that defined my outlook on life. After 1968 I didn't think it could get worse. My, how wrong I was.

[secondwind]

10. I was a young mother with a 3-mo old, waiting for my husband

to come home from Vietnam. He returned in June, and was never the same again. We divorced two years later, but remained lifelong friends until his death two years ago.

So many lives were destroyed in this war.

[colsohlibgal]

11. Still Makes Me Angry

It amazes and infuriates me to this day......who authorized using real bullets on those kids? You would have to think it had to have been the Governor Jim Rhodes.

I was friends with a few women up there, was relieved they were OK but feel for those ruthlessly gunned down. It was criminal, plain and simple.

Years later a lawsuit was settled but it wasn’t enough. That was first degree murder as I see it.

We must never forget.

[demtenjeep]

17. never forget

but never be surprised when it happens over and over

[demtenjeep]

17. never forget

but never be surprised when it happens over and over

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. I remember they played this at the end of one of the episodes in the Ken Burns documentary.

That was the same episode they also talked about Mai Lai.

I remember just the combination of the two stories just took a lot out of me hearing about, and this is something that all happened before I was even born.