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struggle4progress

(120,547 posts)
Wed May 4, 2016, 01:49 PM May 2016

'67 Shots' dispels myths about shooting of Kent State students in 1970

By Mike Fischer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May. 4, 2016 at 1:24 PM

... Parents of one of the dead — a ROTC student and athlete in the wrong place at the wrong time — received a letter calling their boy a “destructive, riot-making communist” and advising the parents to “be thankful he is gone.”

Vandals slashed a black ribbon that one professor had tied around a tree in his yard to mourn the dead; his kids were stoned by their playmates and he himself endured a neighbor tracking him with a gun as he walked down the street.

Soldiers at Quantico Marine Base cheered when an enlisted man scribbled “Kent State 0, National Guard 4” on a blackboard ...


http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20160504/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/160509820

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'67 Shots' dispels myths about shooting of Kent State students in 1970 (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2016 OP
The National Guard... freebrew May 2016 #1
Thanks for posting - Also see James Michener's "Kent State" Number9Dream Jun 2016 #2

freebrew

(1,917 posts)
1. The National Guard...
Wed May 4, 2016, 03:28 PM
May 2016

fighting our freedoms since May 4, 1970.

What a bunch of useless bastards.
The reason I am NOT a pacifist.

Number9Dream

(1,658 posts)
2. Thanks for posting - Also see James Michener's "Kent State"
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 08:42 AM
Jun 2016

Late to the thread... but thanks for posting. I'm going to try to find this book.

If interested in this tragic event, also read James A. Michener's "Kent State: What Happened and Why".

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380436.Kent_State

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