Today marks the 41st anniversary of the Kent State massacre, when the Ohio National Guard fired upon peacefully assembled, unarmed students on the university campus protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia; all told, four were killed and nine others were wounded (one of whom was left permanently paralyzed from the chest down). If the point of history, collective or personal, is to learn from the past, we would do well here in Wisconsin and elsewhere, of course, to heed this date. Read the rest of this entry »
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