Irony Alert

[unhappycamper]

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/10/ap-kent-state-beats-army-101312/

Kent State’s Archer runs over Army
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Oct 13, 2012 16:11:58 EDT

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Dri Archer rushed for 222 yards — including an explosive 87-yard touchdown late in the game — and completed a trick 24-yard touchdown pass as Kent State defeated Army 31-17 Saturday.



From the Memory Hole:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Kent State shootings

The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre[2][3][4]—occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5]

Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[6][7]

There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students,[8] and the event further affected the public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[9]



unhappycamper comment: I was in Cambodia when the Ohio Army National Guard got its mojo on.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. You made it out of a war zone, they died at a peace protest ,

Irony I guess, thank you for your service and this story .

[malaise]

2. Kent State was my wake up call about America

So much for the right to protest

[Major Hogwash]

3. FTA!

That's for you, bro.

[unhappycamper]

4. Thank you. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

5. This summer I hear the drumming,

Four dead in Ohio.

Regarded as one of the greatest protest songs ever.

I was 26 then and here in the UK , particularly those near my own age , just couldn't believe it. So sad.

[RagAss]

6. Thanks for posting and using a link with the phrase "Kent State massacre".

One of the few times I became violent in my life was on someone who continued to call it the Kent State Uprising in a conversation where we both had a bit too much to drink.

[madokie]

7. I was in Vietnam when this happened

and knew in my heart of hearts that this illegal war we were in would soon be over. 6 months later I was home after serving 15 months. Part of me was home, not all

[lonestarnot]

8. :hug:

[madokie]

9. I needed that