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To: mkjessup

I watched the whole thing live on tv and knew that the guardsmen had reasons to fire. The riots on all campus' were getting way out of hand dukring those years.
I enlisted in '68. US Army


52 posted on 05/04/2006 9:06:29 PM PDT by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: phil1750
I watched the whole thing live on tv and knew that the guardsmen had reasons to fire. The riots on all campus' were getting way out of hand during those years. I enlisted in '68. US Army

I was in high school, an endangered species in that when the anti-Vietnam protests were going on, I was calling for the unlimited bombing of the North, the mining of Haiphong Harbor, and not a negotiated settlement, but for military victory over Hanoi, because the U.S. was kicking their Commie asses all over the landscape. Needless to say, I was not very popular in my extreme liberal, dope-smoking, flag-burning, hippie-infested secondary school, but I didn't back down.

I saw all that spin from the alphabet networks regarding Kent State, and the Communist fifth column operating on our home soil, and this article puts the truth out there, exposes the traitors, and sets history straight.

And thank YOU for your service!
53 posted on 05/04/2006 9:12:40 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: phil1750
Yes, thank you for your service. I had a best friend that enlisted in '66, right after we graduated. He was the closest thing to a brother I ever had. After 4 years in the service, Airborne 101st, he came home and started to college, married, divorced, and committed suicide.

I think he was made to feel like such an outsider by all those asses at university, that he just couldn't deal with it. Being married to a 'Nam vet, myself, I remember how they were treated. I've always felt responsible in a way. If I had just been there more....
55 posted on 05/04/2006 9:22:30 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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