tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post5115725313025411072..comments2023-07-07T01:53:48.487-06:00Comments on What's Wrong With This Picture?: Kent State Repercussions RememberedM.G. Bralleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083864482181744657noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-74440414538621033822014-09-29T01:56:27.670-06:002014-09-29T01:56:27.670-06:00Read it. Very good up to a point. Michener '...Read it. Very good up to a point. Michener ' s private views come thru loud and clear. He hated any kind of dissent by anyone towards the US government or armed services (he spent the 2nd WW living a life of paradise in the Pacific). The good old USA was built on dissent. I noticed that the flag of NM has the depiction of 2 murderers and players and rapists. A Conquistador and a pioneer who stole this land from the Indians.thomasmshields@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16904882598468518880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-41147595718200022692014-09-29T01:46:04.108-06:002014-09-29T01:46:04.108-06:00HEAR! HEAR!HEAR! HEAR!thomasmshields@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16904882598468518880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-59545703439379481222014-04-26T23:07:16.565-06:002014-04-26T23:07:16.565-06:00The definitive book on Kent State is James Michene...The definitive book on Kent State is James Michener's book titled simply "Kent State." It explains a lot about why what happened happened. Don't comment until you have read it.Alnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-50405870177158393352010-09-26T08:26:59.811-06:002010-09-26T08:26:59.811-06:00I am in my 60's now and have lived in peaceful...I am in my 60's now and have lived in peaceful Australia since 1971, thanks to Nixon's excesses. There's wisdom in Weird Al's palendrome "No X in Nixon" to which I add "It's a f***king swastika!" That May I was at UNM dressed in a conservative outfit because I was a student teacher at Sandia High School and had been advised to cut my beard OFF and my hair back to an RFK look. I am convinced it saved my life. My little clique of "Art Paintin', Dope Smokin', War Hatin', Song Singin'" hippies and anti-war activists, 6 of us were on that porch of the SUB facing the History Bldg drinking coffee when those trucks full of Guardsmen (all country boys who HATED hippies and who had joined the Guard to stay out of VietNam)reversed up onto the pedestrian mall. 70 yr old General Jolley had told these grunts that there were Molotov Cocktails being thrown and snipers on the roof of the SUB. They exited the Army trucks with such haste that two of them were nicked by unsheathed sharpened bayonets wielded by their fellow 'WeekEnd Warriors'. We could not believe our eyes and ears at first. My next-door neighbour was the most seriously wounded with a gash in his upper thigh inflicted by a Private aiming for his genitals. You can see his picture in the 3-vol 1970 UNM yearbook lying on a makeshift strecher/table, drenched in blood, grimacing with pain but together enough to hold a defiant fist aloft as he was hurriedly carried towards an ambulance. I recall one Albuquerque and two Gold Cross ambulances being stopped from leaving by Guardsmen holding 2 or 3 bayonet points against each of the (3 x 4 = 12) tyres. There were two NG Sergeants (middle-aged and clearly experienced) vainly, at first, trying to call the young Privates into some semblance of Discipline and Order, and by then the milling confused students had also regrouped and began that ferociously loud chant, "Pigs Off Campus!!!" Never had we felt that sentiment so clearly and righteously. UNM Law School students began spreading the word that they would be at the old Employment Agency building to take depositions from eye witnesses to this Hitlerian, Nixonian unwarranted attack on peaceful students. I was what's called an Army Brat, and was born in Germany in '47, my brother in Tokyo in '54, and I was always told, even though I never lived in the USA until 1963, that I was an American despite my mother and birthplace being German. Father's first USA posting was not even truly American, it was the then "humbled but undefeated" (that's what our History teacher taught in the still whites-only school in Augusta) Confederate state of Georgia. Within weeks of arriving there, I KNEW to a moral certainty that I was going to get my free B.A. and split for some Commonwealth country. Dig it, how can you not love a country where the second largest town in Queensland is called Surfers' Paradise? A UNM alum living there wrote sarcastic letters-to-Editor of Albuq Tribune whenever there was yet another story of an unwarranted shooting by NM Pigs, pointing out that Aussie cops, like the Bobbies in England, didn't even carry pistols. May 1970 put that last straw on my camel.<br /> Hate mail and death threats (from you Tea Partyin', Repugnican votin', Heston's cock-suckin', Maz-lum hatin' bristle haired NRA luvvin' embarrassments to the once great reputation of the USA) will be forwarded to Sarah Palin even though that president-in-waitin' of y'awls cain't hardly read nor write none. I thank you. 'Doc' W.fdu9https://www.blogger.com/profile/03717512791288794078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24946442.post-40416417556086127012010-05-16T12:35:23.559-06:002010-05-16T12:35:23.559-06:00Sir,
I have read with great interest your blog on ...Sir,<br />I have read with great interest your blog on the university protests and agree with your feelings expressed at the end of the blog and share your questioning of why the National Guards resorted to using deadly force in non-deadly force situations. I was on the Kent State campus that fateful day in May and still have vivid memories. To be honest I was not aware of what transpired on the campus of the UNM. It is hard for me to believe that the troops on the UNM campus used bayonets on the students. While I’m not in any way shape or form a conspiracy theorist I have a belief that Nixon sent word to the Adjutant Generals of the National Guards that deadly force could be used at the discretion of the local guard units.Henrynoreply@blogger.com