American History

Of course Kent State is well known for the fatalities during the protests.

I was at the University of Kansas and two students were shot by the National Guard. Our Computer Science department was also bombed but without loss of life or that level of devastation. I did have a bullet pass through my office window and lodge into the opposite wall - not sure if it was targeted or not.

Some of my work was funded by ARPA which can be viewed as not militaristic, but it still served the interests of the USGOV and eventually originated the internet. (I worked on two of the original message-processing units for the early prototypes.)