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If you live in Northeast Ohio then you know that May 4th is the anniversary of the shootings at Kent State University. I find it interesting that the media only seems interested in the fact that four students were shot and killed by the National Guard on that day 31 years ago. They rarely ever mention why the National Guard was there in the first place. For those of you who don't know the National Guard was there because the protestors had set fire to the ROTC building. That's why the National Guard needed to be called in, and that is what lead up to the shootings. It was not a peaceful demonstration that the local authorities did not like. The protestors were asked to disperse, but yet, they didn't. Tensions were high, and nobody really knows for sure why they opened fire on the crowd. We don't know if somebody's finger slip and they fire so the others followed suit, or if somebody set of a sound like gun fire so the Guardsmen opened fire, or if they were ordered to fire into the crowd. We just don't know, and we probably never will. The only that I know is that I value my life too much to stick around when people with guns show up and tell me to leave. This ties back a little to the rioting that I talked about a couple of weeks ago. How many of those students that were protesting honestly thought that the war was a bad idea, and how many of them were just there because the news was there? I imagine that there were a number of people in that crowd that would have normally left, but they stuck around because noone else left. Some of them may not have even been there if their friends weren't there as well. You really need to be careful about jumping on the bandwagon. You need to make sure that bandwagon is safe, and it represents something that you feel very strongly about. I don't feel all that bad for the four that were shot. I may feel different if I knew them, but they were told to leave, and they didn't. Hopefully you won't find yourself in this sort of situation, but if you do then use your brain. The war was not something to give your life up over. Get out so that you can take part in another protest. |
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