It's been 55 years since one of the mass shootings at a school.

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11. Remembering - Allison Krause, Sandra Scheuer, Jeffrey Miller, William Schroeder.

Three of the four students killed were simply walking across campus, and not even involved in the demonstration.

The killings affected college and high school students more than most adults. After all, this was a demonstration on a college campus in middle America, not China. They felt it could be them next.
I remember how the killings at Kent State pushed a large number of my high school classmates, who were politically middle-of-the-road, much further toward the anti-war, anti-establishment end of the spectrum.

My older brother, in the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, in Duc Pho, S. Vietnam, didn't hear about it until a day or two after. He said most of the soldiers felt that battle-dressed guardsmen should not have responded, even to rock throwing, with lethal force.