Posted on May 4, 2016
National Guard kills four at Kent State - May 04, 1970 - HISTORY.com
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I remember this well. It was 5 years before I joined the Navy. The dislike for Veterans and active duty military during the years following this was very bad. We where even told in those days not to travel in uniform because the military was concerned for our safety. Nothing like it is today where people actually thank you for your service. back then they spit on us and called us baby killers. Most where liberals and draft dodgers and went a long way to forming my political viewpoints.
National Guard kills four at Kent State - May 04, 1970 - HISTORY.com
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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!
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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.
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Capt Seid Waddell
CPT Jack Durish, it also taught the hippies not to try to put flowers in the soldiers' rifle barrels; it could be unsafe.
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I remember that day and those times also, the military was disrespected. Oh, how awful the public was against us.
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