This is a couple of days late...Friday May 4th was the 31st anniversary of the killing of four students and wounding of nine others at Kent State University in Ohio. I just discovered an audio documentary, Remembering Kent State, which was first produced by WKSU (now a National Public Radio station, then the college radio station) in 1990 and was expanded last year. I listen to WKSU's online folk music program, which is how I found out about the program.

I was a high school senior in Philadelphia that spring. Listening to those voices brings the whole era back very vividly. I still don't think anybody really knows why the Guardsmen were using live ammunition and why they suddenly fired on the crowd. I'm sure many of those Guardsmen still have nightmares. I don't want to restart the debate about the Vietnam War here, just wanted to bring people's attention to this program.

Aloha,
Mark