Kent State 40 years Later-Has Anything Really Changed

40 years ago today, college students were gunned down by the US National Guard. Yes, I say gunned down. Who knows who gave the order but this is what happened. As I was just a 19 year old living out here in CA the news at the time was very minimal. You must remember this was before the internet and "instant news" on the TV. Many of us at that time believe the news organizations were controlled by the US Government and so we were not getting the whole story. It was a very awful thing that happend back there at Kent State. Ohio, is in the midwest and I have to believe after the "Kent State" incident many opinions about our government and their wanting to control what we saw, heard and believed were now being challenged. We had a war that was very unpopular. A lot of us were questioning why we were in a country none of us had heard about. Oh yes, the China issue and how they were going to take over the world. Did this happen?? Not really, but it was really sad to see how Saigon was taken over in a couple of days after we had spent 10 years plus there and lost about 58,000 of our young there. And we also never take into count the other countries who also sent their young over there. And to think, just last week, was the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

So, I ask myself, did anything really change? I don't think so. Often wonder how those National Guardsmen are doing today and what do they really thing about what happened. I don't trust the "news media" to really give us the true scoop. You wonder why I say this, well where were they when our previous President (Bush #2) decided to go to Iraq for those weapons of mass destruction. No one questioned this what so ever. Because they were afraid to challenge the statu quo!!!!

Now, about our generation from the 60's and 70's, did we really change anything when it comes to war? I don't think so. We got caught up in all that other shit of the 80's and 90's...... And now, oh my god, I just don't want to go there.

Young lives were taken and changed on that terrible day at Kent State 40 years ago. Now we should be asking ourselves, did we really learn anything from that and could it happen again today in 2010?