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...From now on it will be easy to kill students, because no one will care. They will read of two of them shot, and it will not be as many as four; they will harden themselves to the shock value that Kent presented. As time passes they will forget or become immune to the reality as they have become immune to the slaughter in Viet Nam. They will present the same apathetic front that destroyed Germany in the '30s, and history will repeat itself...
...Kent State Professor Charles Brill's statement, "My God, this is for real," ring throughout our nation. You bet your hippie wig it's for real. America is fed up with all of these violent demonstrators. What a great nation we'd have if just a fraction of this hostile energy could be transformed into efforts to assist the more unfortunate members of our country...
...father of one of the Kent State victims is quoted as asking: "Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl has to be shot because she disagrees deeply with the actions of her Government?" No one has been shot in this country for disagreeing with the actions of the Government. Persons have been killed and injured, however, for participating in riots and demonstrations involving violence. Certainly the events at Kent State were tragic, but I cannot share TIME'S outrage that the National Guardsmen had loaded rifles. Is it not about time that...
Ohio's Kent State University, at least, took a significant step. Last week its trustees decided to hold the 1970 commencement after all, reopening the campus-under tight security-for the first time since National Guardsmen killed four students there on May 4. It was a step back toward normalcy and, one could only hope, toward reconciliation...
...wake of large-scale protest against the Cambodian intervention and the Kent State killings, Nixon on May 8 was going out of his way to stress the limited nature of the incursion. In the give-and-take of his press conference, Nixon overstated the certainty of South Vietnamese withdrawal and of the termination of U.S. support. The remark took some of his subordinates by surprise. The equivocations since then have been designed to retreat somewhat from that firm statement...