On 5/4/1970 I was at the end of my junior year
in college
there was a Kent State Strike at our school
which shut it down
more people than ever before participated in
marches and other actions
every vowed to come back in the fall and make
the movement bigger and better than ever

never happened

that was the last gasp

in 1968 the left was powerful enough to sink
Humphrey
in 72 the left forced McGovern on the Democratic
bosses

that was the last gasp on that level

my future wife (I didn't know her then) was
demonstrating in the face of the National Guard
at Kent State when they opened fire

that was the end

military power outranked flower power

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