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Related: About this forumToday is Kent State Day.
It was a few weeks before my high school graduation.
Remember the innocent. They were portrayed as the guilty.
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Today is Kent State Day. (Original Post)
twodogsbarking
May 2021
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hlthe2b
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raging moderate
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PittBlue
(4,437 posts)3. One of my best friends was at the protest that day.
It changed her life forever and she eventually became a professor at Kent State. We visited the University a few years ago and my husband and I broke down in tears visiting the site of the murders.
samnsara
(18,371 posts)4. i remember it as well...:(