The Vietnam War at Home

The picture above was taken the day after the massacre of Kent State University students on May 4, 1970 by the Ohio National Guard. The unknown girl is silently contemplating the blood splattered concrete where one of four students fell after being shot dead by Ohio National Guard sharpshooters. Nine other students were injured and one was paralyzed for life. Judging from the location of the pool of blood, it appears that it may belong to student William Schroeder.

La Voz de Aztlan can not help wonder if the lonely girl, gazing at the blood, knew William Schroeder. Perhaps she secretly admired him but never had the opportunity to let him know. Over 50, 000 young men also met their deaths in the jungles of Vietnam clear across the world. Many more came back mangled, some physically and others mentally. The two female and two male Kent University students gave their lives in the effort to stop a senseless war that was ripping at the gut of America. On May 4, 1970, after many demonstrations by college and university students against the war, then President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew decided to bring the war home against it's own children. The invasion and occupation by armed troops of Kent State University and their murder of the four students will never be forgotten.

We invite you to take a short tour of this immemorial day through pictures and their description

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