Kent State Shootings

May 4, 1970 - My dad's 23rd Birthday

"People die every day from diseases, hunger, murderers, suicide and cold-hearted people. On May 4, 1970 four students at Kent Sate University were unnecessarily shot and killed by members of the National Guard in a the middle of a student protest against the Vietnam War. Four days before this tragic event President Nixon told our country that American soldier were being sent into Cambodia to eliminate Communist sanctuaries. After the news reached the American public large amounts of protests started all over the nation against our soldiers even going to Vietnam for fear of our country making the war bigger then it already was. The next day an estimated five hundred students gathered in the school commons for a gentle student rally with the belief that President Nixon violated the U.S. Constitution by not letting our congress vote on whether or not we should send troops into Cambodia. The students proceeded to symbolize their belief that our President cheated the Constitution by burying a copy of the Constitution and standing strong behind their feelings that Nixon was indeed wrong."