National Guard kills four at Kent State - May 04, 1970 - HISTORY.com

PO2 Mark Saffell thanks for posting this historic post. I am from Akron, Ohio and have been to Kent St. University. What a day in history of significance. Great read!

I wonder if anyone learned the same lesson I learned from the incident at Kent State: Never arm and send poorly led, poorly trained soldiers in harms way. Now, I know that there will be those who will argue that there was no danger here. There was. Don't just look at the well-edited clips that show a volley line opening fire on unarmed students. Look at the whole picture. A screaming mob out of control. Sadly, the troops were little more than a mob, a much smaller one in fear despite the fact they were armed. Also note, they fired over the heads of the nearest mobsters. The students who were killed and wounded were loitering in the rear.

I remember that day and those times also, the military was disrespected. Oh, how awful the public was against us.