Gasshog has good memory of it - It’s worth looking up because some of the doors music was really well done.
This had to be the early 70s when it came out. In 1970, I was in 5th grade and I recall distinctly watching the Ohio National Guard heading south (towards Kent) as I walked home from school.
Fast forward to a few nights later, and my dad (WW2 vet) and brother (new College student) had quite the conversation at the dinner table. I sat between them.
Torn between two distinct points of view, I was. Ironically, some 29 years later, I took a college course in my last year at Baldwin Wallace College entitled “The History of Vietnam”. It was the fast version, very birds-eye view, but during the course, the professor mentioned that he was teaching at the school when the Kent State shootings took place. His words mentioned that traveling rabble rousers tried to invade the Baldwin Wallace campus a few days before the Kent state episode, but were run off by the college football team. GO, YELLOWJACKETS!!!
I looked up Baldwin Wallace College on Wiki... interesting, quite a history. Was Kent State nearby?
***I took a college course ... “The History of Vietnam”. It was the fast version, very birds-eye view***
I imagine you were lucky it was an abbreviation. My memory of 'nam is captured in the Mel Gibson movie 'We Were Soldiers'. I can bring myself to watch it but it wrenches my gut. I refuse to watch 'Platoon'!
Our finest and our best thrown into a pit needlessly.
hey my niece went to Baldwin Wallace College....
...His words mentioned that traveling rabble rousers tried to invade the Baldwin Wallace campus a few days before the Kent state episode, but were run off by the college football team. GO, YELLOWJACKETS!!!
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When we were young. we read about history but could not identify it around us when it was happening.
Now, we are living history and recognize it as it is happening. What a time to be alive. If my Pa was still here, we would be having some of the best conversations of my life. I converted him from Dem to Repub leading up to the Reagan election.
Pa was a great critical thinker and used the socratic reasoning, which expanded my critical thinking but also would expand his too. This of course was all before the internet of everything.