My reply to Joseph’s post regarding the murder of students at Kent State was not published..blocked by the moderators.
I take personal offense at the calling of the students ‘bums’ who ‘deserved to be shot’
On Independence Day we celebrate our country and the freedom and rights afforded us.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution (the one that proclaims freedom of religion) also proclaims our Rights to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly, something that was taking place on public land. Governor Rhodes acting through the Ohio National Guard sought to deny the protesters those rights.
Why am I so personally upset? Jeffrey Miller, of New York, shot dead by the Ohio National Guard, while exercising those First Amendment Rights was my cousin.
He is remembered and mourned to this day.