Kent State 38 Years Later
By Bob Schwartz on May 4, 2008 in General Comments
It has been 38 years and counting since a family acquaintance, Bill Shroeder, and 3 others were killed at Kent State University just down the road from where I was growing up. Up until then I had been effectively shielded from the Vietnam War but Schroeder’s death from shots fired by the Ohio National Guard while he was walking to class forever changed that.
Over 5 years into our latest unpopular war, the protests haven’t reached the point they did in 1970, probably due to the lack of a draft, but as Bush’s approval ratings show, we aren’t too thrilled with the current conflict either. To commemorate the incident also know as the “Kent State Massacre”, Neil Young wrote Ohio.
OldSarg | May 6, 2008 | Reply
I’ve thought a bit about the 60’s lately. I suppose mostly because I realize I am getting older and the clock is still ticking. I’ve been trying to think about what positive things came out of the 60’s and besides some of the music, nothing. All the social change was just a bull shit way to try in get into someone’s pants under the guise of Free Love. The drug scene has lead our country into over crowded prisons, gang bangers, families torn apart and meth death. Blue Jeans…I’ll give it blue jeans. Kennedy got us into a war we wouldn’t support. Kerry came back and lied about his brothers. Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, the Kent State kids died for nothing.
Bob Schwartz | May 6, 2008 | Reply
the Kent State kids died for nothing
Especially Bill Schroeder, he wasn’t even involved in the protest. He was just walking to his next class