John Smith wrote:
Harry are you talking about those bunch of scared kids who were surrounded
by 1000's of anger protestor throwing rocks and bottles?

Whoa right there hoss.

You are flat wrong. The protestors never "surrounded" anybody.


... Unfortunately a
small group of the guardsmen feeling in danger of their life, freaked out
and shot into the crowd trying to disperse the angry students.

Actually, they shot at a crowd across a big lawn, and two of the people
killed were not even in the protest.



You should not be angry at the guardsmen,

Yes, you should. They murdered their countrymen over a political
disagreement.

... you should be upset at LBJ who
sent young Americans to an war that we could never win.

Agreed, but with the added notice that LBJ did not initiate US
involvement in Viet Nam nor formulate an original policy. All he did was
follow bad advice and indulge in a Southerner's instinct to not back
down from a fight.

Viet Nam was a disaster in the making back in the 1800s, and we should
*never* have backed the French to go back in after WW2.

DSK