55 Years Ago This Sunday
May 4, 1970
To start this weekend, I am choosing to re-post a column, based on a 2020 column for The Forward.
55 years ago this Sunday, four students, including hometown Plainview boy Jeffrey Miller, were gunned down at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
Today, rampages and killings on college campuses continue, not by the military or the National Guard but by other students, interlopers, rogue terrorists, and unbalanced Americans, fueled not by a war necessarily, but a mindset of hate and violence that is sweeping the country, with no end in sight.
This Sunday, we remember.
A New Old Post from 'The Forward,' 2022
Tomorrow will be the 54th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State. The killings have both a personal effect; Jeffrey Miller graduated from my high school with my brother, and his mom Elaine Miller Holstein wrote the forward to my book on Erica; and a historical one, as today's college campuses are rife with protests and chaos and it could happen agai…