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SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Topic Author's Original Post - May 4, 2011 - 07:57pm PT
Today is the anniversary of Kent State massacre. It never leaves my thoughts...a child of the times. Susan

Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
May 4, 2011 - 08:01pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVMGKOFIwY
Dropline

Mountain climber
Somewhere Up There
May 4, 2011 - 08:04pm PT
Never leaves my thoughts either. That was a momentous and frightening day that scarred our national conscience. National Guardsmen were shooting and killing university students for protesting the Vietnam War. It was insane.
Gene

climber
May 4, 2011 - 08:57pm PT
Yeah. Made an indelible mark on me. I was 17 and a senior in HS.


A few months later, my classmate, Jonathan Jackson, got killed while shooting up a Marin County court room trying to free his brother, George. JJ killed a bunch of folks. Crazy time, indeed.

g

EDIT: SCseagoat, Thanks for posting up.


EDIT 2: Sullly, From the Neil Young song as I'm sure you know.

What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Damn!
Gene

climber
May 4, 2011 - 09:15pm PT
Susan,

Ever hear this tune? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9PiEgYYUU

Best,
g

Yet another incessant EDIT: These kids were protesting what ultimately brought about the Cambodian genocide.
philo

Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
May 4, 2011 - 09:50pm PT
A black day in America that still haunts my memory.
DanaB

climber
Philadelphia
May 4, 2011 - 10:08pm PT
From what I have read, why they fired was never determined: lots of conflicting reports, people not talking and/or lying, no one clearly in charge, all the things you would expct from this type of fiasco/disaster . Anyone know anything more?
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
May 4, 2011 - 10:31pm PT

Not only that, but the first Freedom Ride took place 50 years ago today.
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2011 - 11:07pm PT
And lets not forget just 10 days after Kent State there were two students killed and several injured at Jackson State in Mississippi. Took a major back page to Kent State...I think we all know why. Susan

Gene: yes, love Buffalo Springfield...did you know they are actually doing a reunion tour? I think they are going to be in Oakland around the first of June. I've never figured out why those old rockers look like they have aged so much (drugs?) and I'm sure I don't look like I've aged ALL that much..... ha ha ha Susan
Todd Eastman

climber
Bellingham, WA
May 5, 2011 - 02:14am PT
My friend showed me his Kent State yearbook from that year in the early-1990s. Looking at those images was difficult for me. The event caused my friend to drop out and go on to be a leader in outdoor education. Democracy is not free...
johnboy

Trad climber
Can't get here from there
May 5, 2011 - 03:36am PT
I was 18 at the time and it scared the hell out of me.

Isn't our government over in Syria defending the people protesting against their government?
Go figure.


Spider Savage

Mountain climber
SoCal
May 5, 2011 - 10:53am PT
When fascism takes hold, people get killed.

Kent State cracked the growing American fascism of the the 1960's. An army of young people rose up to oppose what history has shown was wrong.

Today this is happening across the Middle East at a much higher cost. IT's time to bring down the fascist oil wealth.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
May 5, 2011 - 11:19am PT
Shlt happens. Somebody probably threw a rock and things escalated.
Whoever shot first will have to live with the consequences.

I knew a woman who was there and turned to find her room mate dead next to her.
That's not her in the photo.
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2013 - 10:52am PT
Ummm, it's that day again, 43 years after the event. End of innocence as what we fought for, fellow students were being killed. Jackson State occurred 10 days after. Some call for reopening of the investigation regarding if the Guards were actually ordered to fire.

I was a student at University of Penn and as we listened to a static filled radio we thought they were saying "Penn State" instead of "Kent State" Several days later about 100,000 protesters converged on Washington. It was scary as Guardsmen lined the tops of buildings with rifles. We all wondered, "were we next" RIP: Allison, Sandra, Jeffery, William. They would have been my age.

Susan
10b4me

Ice climber
Soon 2B Arizona
May 4, 2013 - 11:21am PT
Who can forget that picture?
Eric Beck

Sport climber
Bishop, California
May 4, 2013 - 01:41pm PT
I was at a rally in Sproul Plaza. The speaker was handed a note and a very chilled expression came over his face as he announced the carnage from Kent State. My patriotism died on that day.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
May 4, 2013 - 01:58pm PT
The Newtown shootings...Has anything really changed..?
Gene

climber
May 4, 2013 - 01:59pm PT
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
May 4, 2013 - 11:32pm PT

And finally some truth to what we REALLY did in Vietnam is
coming out. . .

Kill Anything that Moves by Nick Turse.
So sad, we killed so many for what. . .
johntp

Trad climber
socal
May 4, 2013 - 11:42pm PT
somewhere there is a person that has to live with what they did. a very sad day.
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