> Kent State
What happened that day is the protests had gone violent the night before with a lot of destruction in the town. That day the protestors basically backed the Guardsmen into a literal corner. Facing overwhelming numbers they panicked. In my opinion their actions were completely justified. In fact I wish they had have been far more accurate.
-SB
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May your day be full of all your favorite things and people.
In my opinion, their actions were completely justified. In fact I wish they had have been far more accurate.
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That is exactly my memory of how I and everyone I knew at the time felt about it. I did recall that they didn’t just all open fire like they were in WWII.
When I see what police, NG, and S.Svc. put up with today, I can not believe that there has not been another incident. I wouldn’t mind if they’d use a lot more non-lethal quicker. LOL
What happened that day is the protests had gone violent the night before with a lot of destruction in the town. That day the protestors basically backed the Guardsmen into a literal corner. Facing overwhelming numbers they panicked. In my opinion their actions were completely justified. In fact I wish they had have been far more accurate.
-SB
I'm of a similar mind. My dad and my college-aged brother had that conversation at the dinner table a number of times. The protesters, well, the instigators were traveling about (much like today's Antifa/BLM) raising a ruckus, trying to start trouble. And they found it in the unusual spot of Kent State.
Decades later, I worked with a guy that had been on the City of Kent Volunteer Fire Department at the time. The night prior to the shooting, the thugs burned down the ROTC building and cut the fire hoses as the firemen were trying to put out the fire.
Incidentally, the traveling troublemakers tried to stir things up at my college around the same time frame - In what might have been its biggest win ever, the Baldwin Wallace College football team ran them off campus. BW was, at the time, a rather conservative college. My professor that told us about that incident, was pretty old, having been teaching at the school at that time frame. I took his "History of Vietnam" class in 1999, the year I finally graduated.