She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

Loved her article. I left the Ohio National Guard in August of 1970 for exactly that reason, not to point guns at Americans. Luckily I never left the Armory, just monitored the radio. And everyone agreed, with hindsight, that it could all have been avoided. So we learn and move on.
The Units at Kent State were all Infantry Units from Akron and working out of Richfield. One of the Soldiers there at the time, not one of the shooters, wrote an essay about his experience over those four days. And he says it started out easy, and then got more and more tense. And when the Army ROTC building got set on fire...it got worse. But the Use of Deadly Force came under scrutiny and "gentler" ways of Crowd Control were taught to future Guardsmen. And as always, outsiders played a role.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel As a sophomore, she was among the protesters rallying on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of students, killing four and injuring nine — including her brother, Alan, who was one year her senior.