Forty years ago today, Allison Krause, Jeff Miller, Sandy Scheuer and Bill Schroeder were murdered by the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University, where they were students. Just typing that gives me goosebumps, even now. In the midst of some very sad weeks in our country -- the environmental disaster unfolding along the Gulf Coast, sanctioned racism in Arizona, women's rights lost in Oklahoma, DADT still denying civil rights to LGBT people in the military, a car bomb attempt a few miles north of here -- it is important to remember who we are and where we come from.
This is a re-posting from three years ago with very slight editing; the story will always be timely, but I hope that the 40th anniversary of this terrible event in our history will get the attention it deserves and that the diary plays some small part in that.
After the jump, first go see what's happening today in Kent.