Learning About a Tragedy at Kent State University

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard members fired into a crowd of Kent State University student demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine. Protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, the massacre really brought home (literally and figuratively) the realities and losses of the War. Kent State has a really good museum dedicated to the May 4th killings, and has various signs around campus where the various events of the massacre occurred. There are also pillars in the area where each of the students were killed or wounded.

And some of the grounds where the protest first started - leading up to the area where the Ohio National Guard took aim and fired on the students.

The Kent State University May 4th Visitor Center has a great museum that outlines the events of and leading up to the massacre.