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Taken from Flowers are STILL Better Than Bullets by Laurel Krause:
On May 3, 1970, a day before her slaughter, Allison Krause said to Ohio National Guardsmen, "Flowers are better than bullets."
Approaching the 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre on May 4, 2020, I've been thinking about my sister Allison, who was killed as she protested the expansion of the Vietnam War, the forced draft lottery, and President Nixon's Cambodian invasion. Allison Krause was a 19-year-old Kent State University freshman and honors student who was shot dead, along with Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder, by Ohio National Guard gunfire on May 4, 1970, at an anti-war rally at Kent State University in Ohio.
In the afternoon on May 4, 1970, as a 15-year-old, I was walking home from my junior high school bus stop. A neighbor met me, advising me that Allison had been hurt and suggested I phone my parents who both worked.... Read More Also In This Issue:
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