Protests+of+Vietnam+War+Josh

In the year 1965 a war broke out called the Vienam War that greatly changed the social ways people went about and caused many protests. Most of these protests were held at colleges, some were held elsewhere. The purposes of these protests varied. Some of the main reasons are our concerns for our men over in Vietnam, the black integration, and many othere reasons. On May 4, 1970, a shooting occured in Kent State University. This shooting was caused by the Ohio National Guard, they shot thirteen students, four dead and nine wounded. I have been where the shooting took place, the have things in the spots where each one of the four had laid dead on that day. I am not all that sure myself what possesed them to shoot thirteen innocent students like that. I guess it was because the Ohio National Guard was called onto Kent State University for the reasons directly realting to decisions regarding American involvement in the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon had been elected for the reason that he wanted to end the war and get our troops out of Vietnam in 1968. This shooting has taken a great deal on the American social ways. It was a pretty big deal back then, and as I said, this has taken a great deal on what had happened with the war and all. It is terrible that these people had to die for no reason, but maybe it told the country something. Maybe it told them that we wan things the way that we want them, and that is with our troops home and the war ended. So overall, maybe the shooting wasn't so bad after all, well at least for the time it wasn't. That is my report on protests held at colleges in the !960's and 1970's, especially the one protest that lead to the shooting at Kent State.

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