Kent State - A look back

 May 4th 1970

44 years ago today National Guard troops opened fire on a student protest. Wounding 10 and killing 4, Kent State University became a domestic war zone.

University Students amassed in the morning hours to protest President Richard Nixon's decision to expand the Veitnam War into Cambodia.

 This New War on dissentors of the Federal Government and their wars of aggression and intervention was cemented in this and a few other clashes between students and government thugs "Just doing their jobs".

In all 4 students lost their lives standing up for a principled stance of abstaining from the War in Veitnam. Jeffrey Miller, who was shot in the mouth while standing in an access road leading into the Prentice Hall parking lot, a distance of approximately 270 feet from the Guard. Allison Krause was in the Prentice Hall parking lot; she was 330 feet from the Guardsmen and was shot in the left side of her body. William Schroeder was 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when he was shot in the left side of his back. Sandra Scheuer was also about 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when a bullet pierced the left front side of her neck.

Trying to remain peaceful in the face of authoritarianism. Students place small flowers into the bayonets of the Guardmen's rifles.

"They Can't Kill Us All"
A sign made and hung from the campus building after the shootings. It is a sad and sombering feeling to see this sort of thing happen in the past yet feel it may be coming closer to us again.