Interesting thread and interesting comments.
When this Kent State thing happened, I had been back from a 13 month tour in Vietnam for almost a year. I was going to college on the GI Bill at ODU in Virginia. Back then ODU was a lazy little southern campus where the most exciting things going on involved the girls dorm streaking across campus now and then and Friday afternoon fraternity keg parties. There was a little group of hippie types that tried to start a protest of some sort or another every once in a while. They were kinda wierd but they never caused any real trouble and they were pretty much ignored.
Thanks, Smooth.
Seems like your college wasn’t the kind we saw on the news on almost a nightly basis, you were fortunate but I guess there were a lot more campuses like yours than the riotous ones.
I was working, married and raising a family at the time and was a conservative, didn’t take kindly to the anarchism taking place. I worked with several younger guys who’d served in Vietnam and they weren’t happy with the turkeys either. There were plenty of the hippy type around but never had a confrontation with any.