Are the Columbia riots of 1968-71 too painful a memory for America to deal with?

Question

A large number, if not all, of the generation (s) following those harrowing events of 30 yrs ago, have no knowledge of what happened, or the fact that shooting several students with fatalities, ended the nationwide student strike. The people alive at the time either have forgotten completely or pretend no such thing ever happened. The riots actually traveled around the world to Europe and China. (I have recently viewed the famous photos of the dead student in Ohio (Kent State),and read the in-person accounts of Mark Rudd (Ruditsky), who was the Marxist leader in NY.)

Answer 1

The protests as a whole are not forgotten but mostly will be in the next twenty years as the 60s generation dies. It may not be as lost as much as other American riots because of the Internet being within the lifetime of that generation. I don't think the riots are as painful as the war that caused them. The ones who seem to have the pain are the Vietnam vets.
I joined the military during Desert Storm and able to use the VA and see that the Vietnam era vets are still in talk groups.
Talking to these vets gives one insight on how bad it was and how hard it was coming home to the protests.

Answer 2

You're wrong. Those of us from the generation that were in junior high and high school during Kent State remember clearly what occurred and were mortified by it. The national Guard never, ever should have been on the campus with live ammunition and it was a tragedy just waiting to explode.
Those were violent years. The entire 60's were for that matter. Three major assassinations, a war, both Johnson and Nixon unpopular with the youth of the country and the entire nation split down the center...far right and far left. no middle of the road at all.
So...don't think that any of us 'forgot' or just 'don't care' because you appear to have been speaking to the wrong people or those who just didn't give a goddamn about what was happening.
Try working on the idiotic youth of today who 'forget' or 'just don't care' about past events. Do you know why Ken Burns did his series "The War"? Because he found that over half..HALF...the high school students he interviewed believed the United States and Germany fought the Russians. The Japanese? The same group never even knew that Japan was involved let alone an Axis nation. Now that's just plain stupidity.
Remember what George Satayana said. "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it".

Answer 3

Well, it wasn't all that well organized. The deaths at Kent State were in 1970 and have not been forgotten. There were deaths later at Jackson State as well. This didn't end the student actions, though. We had one in Spring 1972 at Northwestern U.

Answer 4

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