When Nixon and Ohio’s governor did this in Ohio to stop a peace march, it ended in one of the greatest tragedies to haunt our nation. Ohio National Guardsmen killing unarmed college kids. This is not a mission the guard has any business undertaking.
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May 5, 1970. It was the first day I ever read the paper. The headline in the Akron Beacon Journal said “4 Students killed at Kent State”
I was in the 3rd grade, 8 yrs old.
I asked my Mom why they would shoot students. She was crying. She couldn’t answer.
For the record, Gov. Rhodes was a Republican.
“Students Allison Krause, 19, Jeffrey Miller, 20, and Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, died on the scene, while William Schroeder, 19, was pronounced dead at Robinson Memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna shortly afterward.”
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So did Trump and everyone in his administration, all members of the house and all of our senators. His corruption is spreading and there are millions who support him in his actions.
Thank you for bringing up this particular example. I was still in college the and also protesting the war. It terrified us all. A few years later, I joined the Army myself. It became my career. I came to embrace its nonpartisan military ethos and the importance of our oath to the Constitution.
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The DHS proposal, along with Trump’s highly partisan speech to our troops in Qatar, flies in the face of that ethos and our oath. Before long, that ethos will shrivel and we will rightly worry that our military will, if so ordered, turn their weapons in our direction like the Ohio Guard in 1970.
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Trump and everyone in his administration, all members of the house and all of our senators also took an oath to the constitution. His corruption is spreading and there are millions who support him in his actions. It’s chilling what a small slip could unleash.
It is chilling! When I saw Trump speaking to troops in Qatar in such a blatantly political way (not unusual for him, but not one reporter even commented on it!), I could see the ethos that takes years to build just melting away. Then to give them a domestic “law” enforcement mission — explosive!
It wasn't a peace march/protest, or anything.
My family were there on the day. It was students around lunchtime going between lunch & classes when someone rang the assembly bell on the field where people crossed. The custom was for students to gather there when the bell was rung for announcements.
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He looked at me and said, “Kent State is a college in Ohio-“
“Yeah, we’re familiar!”
Zoomers!!!
I was in the 3rd grade, 8 yrs old.
I asked my Mom why they would shoot students. She was crying. She couldn’t answer.
For the record, Gov. Rhodes was a Republican.
I can’t even.
“Students Allison Krause, 19, Jeffrey Miller, 20, and Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, died on the scene, while William Schroeder, 19, was pronounced dead at Robinson Memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna shortly afterward.”
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My family were there on the day. It was students around lunchtime going between lunch & classes when someone rang the assembly bell on the field where people crossed. The custom was for students to gather there when the bell was rung for announcements.
Fuck Nixon, and fuck his Silent Majority.
(He'd had to wait until '72 for that.)