Kent State Massacre: May 4, 1970

[sheclown]

Tomorrow marks the 44th anniversary of the Kent State shootings.  For those of us alive back then, it was a turning point for consciousness of middle America.  It marked the moment in time when the "silent majority" lost its innocence and America was never the same.
I remember quite vividly discussing this with my father at the dinner table.  I was 14 years old.  We had many dinner table discussions about Vietnam over the years and my father had defended his government time and again.  That night, my dad just shook his head.  He lost faith.  It was huge.

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[2][3][4] occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5][6]

Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[7][8]

There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students,[9] and the event further affected public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.

[sheclown]

http://www.youtube.com/v/g2UBQX7fwBQ?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0

You can't begin to understand the generation of people that I am so glad to belong to without understanding how painful it was to watch the government shoot and kill college students who were protesting the war.

It made us all anarchists to some degree or other.