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Government and Politics, Remembrance
WHEN: May 4th, Annually
Four students paid with their lives, for free speech. Nine others were wounded for the right to peacefully assemble. Do something peaceful and reflective in their honor. Share your tribute, as those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it. And this is history that we never want repeated.
On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam... https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/national-guard-kills-four-at-kent-state
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