Honor the victims of Kent St. University

This week we pay tribute to Jeffrey Glen Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder and Sandra Lee Scheuer.
These names don’t seem to mean anything except for the fact that they were gunned down by the Ohio National Guard in a repressive act order by President Richard Nixon in May of 1970.
These students were doing nothing but exercising their right to demonstrate (included in the first amendment) against the policies taken by the Nixon Administration to extend the war in Vietnam to neighboring Cambodia.
Candidate Nixon had campaigned in 1968 under the premise of ending the conflict in what he called the "Lyndon Johnson war" in Vietnam. But in May of 1970 his administration decided to expand that war.
These students felt that they had no interest in keep on sending American kids to a region they new nothing about to a conflict that was not in the interest of this country.
The students that were demonstrating were unarmed, the Ohio National Guard starting shooting at the crowd with no respect to life.
There were 4 killed (previously mentioned), 9 who were injured, that fortunately survived the incident and many others were left physically but not emotionally unharmed, as this was an example of how our elected officials would try to silence its citizens.
I think of the 60s as a great period, as it was a time of great growth in this country. Although I wasn’t living here at the time, and I was a child, it showed how the younger generation confronted publicly the previous generation, and their policies, as they were in the mindset that this country should send its youth to fight, even though the reasons were not justifiable.
Unfortunately many times with growth comes pain, as there was a lot of blood shed during that period, with figures like President Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy gunned down, but the youth of the United States went from being kids to adults.
It would have been nice if today’s youth would do the same with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, two conflicts that this country has no part of.