Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jan-15-11 01:11 PM
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Tucson "shooting victim also witnessed Kent State shootings"
Edited on Sat Jan-15-11 01:12 PM by Cerridwen
The title at the link sucks, btw.
Randy Gardner was settling into a chair, chatting with an elderly woman also waiting to meet U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday, when the sound of gunshots collapsed his world into a blur of gray figures and ricocheting screams.
It was only much later, as he lay on the ground with a bullet wound in the right foot that his mind hurtled back: May 4, 1970. Kent State University.
"Here I am again," he thought, "dodging bullets."
As a sophomore at Kent State, Gardner had joined a group of students protesting the Vietnam War, when members of the Ohio National Guard suddenly opened fire. He sprinted toward a field and "hit the ground" to avoid the bullets. Later, he discovered four of his classmates were killed, including a girl from his English class.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/15/20110...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x207180I'm sure the DUmmies will have a field day with this. I'm also confident there will be no mention of the protesters starting fires and being violent just, the evil national guard troops that fired.
