Reply #37: I lived in NYC at the time. Mayor John Lindsay lowered city flags to half-mast in [View All]

honor of the 4 killed at Kent State. There were practically riots by mostly construction workers over that action. A whole bunch of family members, including myself, had marched in antiwar marches around that time. One of my cousins ended up in one in which construction workers attacked the marchers -- she saw a young woman in front of her get her arm broken.

Such powerful reminder from Elaine Holstein. She's right -- I think the violence and potential for violence today is far greater than it was 40 years ago. I'm so glad for this reminder -- I'll be thinking about them tonight and tomorrow and beyond as I think of being just young adults living what would end up being their last nights, their last day and all of the horrible days afterward suffered by so many who loved them and so many intimately affected by their deaths. Just plain tragic.