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The shootings occurred where my ex-father-in-law walked to work everyday from his dorm. He "missed" the shootings because he was at work at the time, however, my ex-mother-in-law was there and was one of the protesters. They both knew the people who were shot and it changed them.
He used to say that at that for a week KSU was worried about riots and that everyone walked around campus on eggshells for fear. He said that the divide in this country never truly healed and that the killings at KSU truly changed America.
Of course he wasn't all there and was always spouting conspiracy theories to me.
The ex-mother-in-law by the time I met her had recanted her past and felt that Rhodes did the right thing (sending the Guard, not the shootings), she became a massive neo-con professor and believed that the whole "peace movement was about kids shirking responsibility, smoking weed, sex and not about the war, but about having an excuse to do what they wanted and getting away with it."
I tend to see maybe truth in both sides. Of course I went to Woodstock (the original in '69) with my parents so what do I know.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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