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Old 05-04-2020, 01:25 PM   #20
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As a younger man, I walked past a sculpture named "Sun Totem #1" on the Kent State University campus daily. It is an abstract sculpture composed of intersecting steel planes. The only shape on it that wasn't a crisp angle was a single, soft, circular hole that had been punched through one of the hard planes. I would stand quietly and let the sunlight shine through that circle into my eye.

The circle had been added to the sculpture by one of the bullets fired by an armed military force at American students that day as they voiced their frustration with a government that refused to understand their point of view.

May 4, 1970 was the tipping point in the way I regarded the force behind our government forever. As much as I'd prefer to place my trust in Lincoln's ideal of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, I cannot, do not and will not believe it.

Rest well Allison, Jeffrey, Sandra and William.





I was 13 years old going on 14 that period and the music really shaped my whole outlook. What a time!
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