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AFTER VIETNAM WAR, NOTHING EVER SAME

AFTER VIETNAM WAR, NOTHING EVER SAME By JIM KEVLIN•allotsego.com Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 13-14, 2014 ONEONTA The worst came after Kent State, where Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four college students and wounded nine others when a May 4, 1970, protest against the Vietnam War turned violent. The next day, the SUNY Oneonta campus erupted, as did campuses across the nation. “Twenty-five to 30 of our kids went up for the demonstration,” recalled William “Bud” Pirone, then an Oneonta High…