Things That Don't Get Lost

Memories. They don't get lost. If only you hadn't died so young.

Four Dead In Ohio

Richard Nixon's speech after four students were killed at Kent State. No one had threatened law enforcement; they simply determined that the approach of questioning authority should be met with lethal violence. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Ten days after the incident at Kent State, there was a similar protest at Jackson State University, a Black college in Mississippi. Police came, sprayed bullets into gatherings of unarmed students, and actually fired shots into dormitory windows, killing two and injuring nine. The media did not make a big deal of it, though.

Anniversary Of Kent State Tragedy

May 4, 1970 was the day that four students were gunned down by Ohio National Guard. There were vigils and demonstrations going on at Kent State at that time because of the Vietnam War, and because of Nixon's expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Somehow, an unarmed student body of a university became what law enforcement considered a legitimate target of soldiers with weapons. Think, everyone. How often do you want to read headlines such as this?