re: Kent State Anniversary

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They were protesting their peers being sent off to Vietnam to be slaughtered via a draft. Say what you want but that is at least something semi worthy of a protest. Compare it to the idiots today that don’t have a clue what or who they are actually protesting. I think history is proving the Vietnam War protesters right we had no business being over there. Eisenhower warned us of all of this and nobody listened and the MIC doesn’t care because they want the money the grift brings.

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I appreciate the thoughts behind this.

I watched a documentary last night, so in today’s America, I’m an expert right?

The documentary was from 2005.

From a Birds Eye view of the decade you can see the same strife today but with different demographics. Maybe that’s true for most generations.

This might be a very liberal statement, and a two hour documentary doesn’t give me a leg to stand on, but I don’t blame the kids who were protesting their generation going off to Vietnam to kill people half the world away when it was small country in south east Asia they hadn’t ever heard of and weren’t a direct threat to our safety.

Women’s lib/LGBT/BLM all kind of reminded me of the same fight the college kids claim to have today.

I can’t imagine what a shock the sixties were to conservative minded people. From church people, to law enforcement, to the average southern person.

I’m glad my generation (1981) didn’t have that battle to face in the early 2000. The war on terror ended up being complicated in its own. Having to deal with civil rights for 50% off the country would be a lot for a young country to go through in the middle of a war.

You can sure see similarities between the decades. Different minority group. Sensing generational breaking money being sent all around the world. So far it’s just money and support. I pray it doesn’t ask for boots on the ground. Political strife…. Assassinations of major names and political offices in the country.

It was a scary decade. But, we made it out.