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wtg
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posted 03 May 2020 11:35 AM
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‘It was then that we realized it was live ammunition’: Roseann ‘Chic’ Canfora remembers May 4, 1970


https://www.cleveland.com/metr...bers-may-4-1970.html


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posted 03 May 2020 11:58 AMHide Post
A very dark time and a huge and deadly crime, perpetrated by our government.
 
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posted 03 May 2020 12:44 PMHide Post
I'm feeling my age ...
 
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posted 03 May 2020 01:06 PMHide Post
We have an occasional poster who’s wife was there.


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posted 03 May 2020 04:28 PMHide Post
That would be my wife. She was a student there at the time of the shootings.

Each of us probably has some events in our lives where we remember where we were before and after they occurred and that changed us in some ways. The Kent State shootings were such an event for her.

Big Al


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posted 04 May 2020 08:07 AMHide Post
There are ways to shade the meaning but it was a massacre. My father and I argued about Kent State when I was a child.

Terrible.
 
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posted 04 May 2020 08:44 AMHide Post
So did my dad and I.


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posted 04 May 2020 09:00 AMHide Post
My neighbor's sister was at Kent State at the time.

Nobody in my family ever spoke to me about it.

I was 8 years old.
 
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posted 04 May 2020 12:54 PMHide Post
My father said: "They (the students) were standing there." This was his rationalization. Can you imagine?
 
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posted 04 May 2020 07:38 PMHide Post
There was another massacre at predominantly black Jackson State in Mississippi on May 15, 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings
 
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posted 04 May 2020 11:36 PMHide Post
Interesting live version from 1971, when emotions were still raw.


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posted 05 May 2020 07:27 AMHide Post
Thanks for posting that Jon. Wow.


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posted 05 May 2020 07:39 AMHide Post
Children. Two were still 19.


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posted 05 May 2020 10:17 AMHide Post
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Children.

When I think about Kent State, that's what I think about. And I think about the kids I teach, who are of course in the same age group...


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posted 05 May 2020 11:58 AMHide Post
My brother and his family live in Kent and worked at the university. It's never far from the surface.


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