It's been 55 years since one of the mass shootings at a school.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

On 4 May 1970 the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 unarmed students.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. I got the date wrong.

I confused it with 1972 in Ireland.
Fixed it.

[rsdsharp]

2. I remember it well. It was my 16th birthday.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Happy Birthday

🫡

[rsdsharp]

7. Thank you, although it wasn't that year.

[Norrrm]

3. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Ohio

[hlthe2b]

5. I will never forget... CSN&Y so evocative with this release.

RIP, David...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Another good one

Thanks.

[electric_blue68]

9. Very poignant song.

[electric_blue68]

8. Wow, you confused me for a sec bc I was thinking grade or JHS and thot; I don't remember that....

Kent State...Never forgotten! What a horrific day that was!

Then about 2 weeks later there was a shooting ar ?Mississippi U.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College...thanks for the reminder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings

[electric_blue68]

12. Yw. Then THEN Liberal NY Post had that on their front page thanks for the correction.

Awful times

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. Awful times are back.

There back...deportations. National Guard replaced by ICE. Killing outsourced to Salvadoran prison.

[electric_blue68]

14. Ikr?

[Number9Dream]

11. Remembering - Allison Krause, Sandra Scheuer, Jeffrey Miller, William Schroeder.

Three of the four students killed were simply walking across campus, and not even involved in the demonstration.

The killings affected college and high school students more than most adults. After all, this was a demonstration on a college campus in middle America, not China. They felt it could be them next.
I remember how the killings at Kent State pushed a large number of my high school classmates, who were politically middle-of-the-road, much further toward the anti-war, anti-establishment end of the spectrum.

My older brother, in the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, in Duc Pho, S. Vietnam, didn't hear about it until a day or two after. He said most of the soldiers felt that battle-dressed guardsmen should not have responded, even to rock throwing, with lethal force.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. Mary Ann Vecchio was talking to Jeffrey Miller when she heard shots and dove to the ground.

Moments later this was Mary Ann and Jeffrey:


I think Mary Ann was 14.