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originally posted in meacfans.com:
Originally posted by TechRattler:
[QB] Being that there is so much talk surrounding an impending draft, I thought that I would refresh the minds of our old schoolers, and educate the minds of our young posters who were too young to remember this tragedy:
Synopsis:
President Richard Nixon's announcement of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the need to draft more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, demonstrators occupied buildings and destroyed the ROTC offices. In response, the governor of Ohio dispatched hundreds of National Guardsmen to the campus. On May 4, the guardsmen open fire on a crowd of protesters, killing four student and wounding nine others.
(Side note: In '68 Nixon ran on a platform to de-escalate, not escalate the war in Vietnam.
His decision to invade Cambodia is primarily what pushed his administration into the draft.)
Also note:
On May 14 of the same year, two students at Jackson State University were shot to death and several others wounded, under more questionable circumstances, without arousing nationwide attention.[/QB]
