"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 May 2005 08:41:15 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 05 May 2005 07:47:03 -0400, thunder
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On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:03:41 -0400, JimH wrote:


No one is blaming the reserve troops.....they did what they were
ordered
to do. The blame goes to the person actually ordering the troops to
use
live ammo.

While the Kent State shootings were a tragedy for all concerned, the
investigation afterwords is truly an embarrassment for this country.
In
the bitter divisiveness of that time, the search for any truth took a
backseat.

http://members.aol.com/nrbooks/chronol.htm

For those that are interested, a rather comprehensive site covering the
incident:

http://www.may4archive.org/index.shtml

You know what amazes me about this?

It still engenders passions and debate 30/35 years later.

I wonder why? It's not like anybody is ever going to know the
complete truth of what happened so why bother?

Seriously, without looking it up, can you name the girl in the famous
photograph? I sure as hell can't and that photo still haunts me when
I think of Kent State.

We should just leave it alone.

One must learn from past mistakes. Using your logic one should not
discuss
any past historical events.

Her. Oh yes - the good old "learn from history" card.

If the human race and "learned from history" where do you think we
would be now Jim?

If we didn't, where do you think we would be now Tom?



Please - humans don't learn from history. If they did, we'd be in a
far better place and time.

If they didn't we'd be in a far worse place and time.



There is nothing wrong with this discussion Tom.

I didn't say there was anything "wrong" - it's just useless.

Or provocative which I suspect is the purpose in any case.

Later,

Tom

Provocative as in inciting a mature discussion and remembering the
event...yes. Provocative as in trying to start a flame war....no.