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davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 3761
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 7:25 am:   Edit Post

Today is May 4.
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 1263
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 7:38 am:   Edit Post

Great post, Dave. I remember it well.

Bill, tgo
tom_z
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Username: tom_z

Post Number: 377
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 7:59 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Dave, for bringing this event to our attention.

Peace
Tom
811952
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Username: 811952

Post Number: 715
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 8:24 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Dave.
alembic76407
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Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 449
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 10:39 am:   Edit Post

yesterday was May 3, the day the F5 tornado hit Moore Okla, May 3 1999
palembic
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Username: palembic

Post Number: 2385
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 11:43 am:   Edit Post

Brings up memories of sitting together with my brothetr listening to our old recordplayer on the attic studio ...
I didn't made the link with the 4th of may, i do though with Ohio ...


BTW: my daughter JUlie is now sitting next to me rading out loud his English textes for her exams (last semester it was about Australian history, now about US history. She is now reading me about the "Civil War" in the US (it seems some called it "the war between the states". The stories about the native americans I got already ...

There IS a lot to learn about people!!!

Paul the bad one
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 1264
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 1:29 pm:   Edit Post

Paul:

On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University who were protesting the Vietnam war and, specifically, the disclosure of Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia. 4 students were killed and 9 wounded ("four dead in O-HI-O"). Ten days later, May 14, 1970, 2 more students were shot to death at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Here's a wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Not one of the proudest moments of American history, IMHO.

Bill, tgo
keavin
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Username: keavin

Post Number: 802
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 1:45 pm:   Edit Post

"And the band plays on"!
olieoliver
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Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 310
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 1:51 pm:   Edit Post

I was on ly 7 1/2 years old but I remember it.
gare
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Username: gare

Post Number: 375
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 3:32 pm:   Edit Post

Yes, it was a black moment for this country, but we seem to have a few of those don't we. Like the 1968 democratic convention and mayor Dailys 'shoot to kill' order.
billy_v
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Username: billy_v

Post Number: 52
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 4:05 pm:   Edit Post

In 1970, I was the only kid in seventh grade to wear a black armband to school. On 5/4/80, I was at a Dead show at Baltimore Civic Center. Today, I was just at work.
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 1265
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 4:42 pm:   Edit Post

I wonder how many under 40 are aware of the police riot in Chicago in 1968, complete with Dan Rather being pummelled by the police thugs on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on National TV?!
36 years since Kent State. When I look around today I can't help feeling like we should have learned more than we have from those times.

Bill, tgo
bigredbass
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Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 775
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 7:06 pm:   Edit Post

I always say this: People who did not live through the Sixties have NO idea what it was like.

Incidentally, I thought today was quattro de mayo!

J o e y
palembic
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Username: palembic

Post Number: 2386
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 10:14 pm:   Edit Post

Hey Bill the good guitar one!
Thanks for the insight.
I was not clear in my reaction but my brothers and I DID know what the song was all about back in that year.
The rest of my reaction was to illustrate that we "ovehee" do gather some insight in history on a large basis in school even some things on you brothers on the other side of the pond!
However ...I guess that every man or every country has had his pages of history that they rather kept closed.

Paul the bad one
gare
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Username: gare

Post Number: 376
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 11:02 am:   Edit Post

Chicago does know how to throw a party huh Bill ?
And my favorite Dailey quote 'the police are here to preserve disorder'
dadabass2001
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Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 575
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 - 11:34 am:   Edit Post

"There's nothing as healthy as a fish"

Hizzoner on restocking the Chicago River so downtown workers could catch and cook fish for lunch.
palmann
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Username: palmann

Post Number: 40
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Monday, May 08, 2006 - 12:48 pm:   Edit Post

Did not know about that incident, thanks.

Gruesse, Pablo

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