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Originally Posted by namako
I can think of Chicago, Kent State, and I suppose the Civil War sort of. The Revolutionary War if one looks at "our own" as cultural rather than geograpical. However, Im thinking of on our turf with our own citizens.
Are there other times in history that I am forgetting when our military has been turned against us?
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RB - The idea was introduced in the OP and the reason that I stayed silent on the thread. It seemed to me as well to be the overly obvious choice to answer the question. If Reconstruction is included as well, I believe the argument is over.
I suppose that I'm a bit confused about the purpose of this thread. Are we conducting a history quiz about violence perpetrated on the public by government personnel? If that's the case, we haven't even scratched the surface. The Zoot Suit Riot, immigrant marches in LA in '03, the Indian Wars (debatably), the Kansas/Missouri border wars, the Tennessee/North Carolina border war, any number of lynchings in the South with at least complicitity by the authorities, Waco, the Japanese Interment, the Trail of Tears, and the draft riots from just about any pre-WWII war all qualify, at least in my mind.
So what are we discussing here? Who has the greatest recall of historical events that fit into an ill-defined box?