Yes, I was still in the National Guard and our unit was called up at the time. We hung around the Armory for several days and went home. From 1971 to 1983 I lived, literally, five minutes from KSU.

The root causes were many -- using improper equipment, using pissed-off troops, breakdown of command & control -- but the net result was that students learned that the forces of "law 'n' order" had real guns with real bullets which could kill and wound real people AND they would use them. This effectively ended the anti-war protest movement.

Granted, the ONG screwed up big time, REALLY big time, and criminal prosecutions and courts martial should have followed. But then the students shouldn't have trashed downtown Kent the night before either.

By the way, KSU put up a bronze memorial marker about 1975 -- some students stole it; the Kampus Kops found it in the trash.