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~ Alan Canfora guestbook ~
This is my new web site. My earlier guestbook was defective so here's a new guestbook online starting May 4, 2005. My old guestbook had hundreds of entries since 2000 but it's time for a fresh start. Feel free to re-enter your previous deleted statement now!
Offer your new comment and I'll add it online within a day or two. No spam or otherwise idiotic comments, please. Hey, it's my web site and I won't allow political or religious fanatics to waste the time of my zillions of visitors here at alancanfora.com
NOTE: To view my earlier extensive 2000-2004 guestbook, see: http://web.archive.org/web/20040401101919/www.alancanfora.com/guest.htm
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Date: 4 May 2005 07:05:35 GMT |
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Comment: Alan, an excellent site and a valuable resource that should be maintained for future generations. I clearly remember watching TV images of the tragic events at KSU - an event that must not be forgetten. |
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Date: 5 May 2005 01:37:25 GMT |
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Comment: I was a freshman at KSU in 9/70. I am still haunted by the residual terror that the campus was imbued with for years after the massacre. The victims number into the many thousands. |
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Date: 5 May 2005 01:52:54 GMT |
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Comment: Alan, It's May 4th, and the KSU massacre is on my 11 yr old son's Simpsons calendar. We listened to the Neil Young song Ohio, then I found your web site, where you explained what happend. In this time of yet another unjust war, it is important to teach our children about what happend during Vietnam and draw correllations to what is happening now. Thank you for creating this site so I could share it with my son. I feel great sorry for the suffering you went through. It did make a difference. |
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Date: 5 May 2005 03:08:54 GMT |
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Comment: I never saw your old web site but stumbled upon the new one on the 35th anniversary of the murders. A lot of thought-provoking information, much of which was unkwown to me. Thanks. |
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Name: Brian M. Jackson |
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Date: 5 May 2005 14:15:37 GMT |
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Comment: The sadness of this trajedy echos from the thirteen year old of 1970 to the middle aged man of 2005. Even though I witnessed this from Louisiana, it felt and still feels like an open wound of horror, disgust, and rage at the guilty who remain unpunished among us. To all the brothers and sisters out there, I wish you happiness and fulfillment in whatever way you may find it. |
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Date: 5 May 2005 15:32:50 GMT |
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Comment: I was a student at Kent State from 1975-1979, living in Prentice Hall for the first two years. One of my English classes spent time discussing May 4. Thank you for continuing to update us on the annual observances and information. |
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Date: 5 May 2005 19:02:53 GMT |
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Comment: Yesterday, the 35th anniversary of the massacre, my husband and I were appalled at the lack of media coverage. What a travesty! We were heartened to find this site, and we are thankful that someone is keeping the memory alive. |
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May 5, 2005:
Just today, I discovered your website and wanted to thank you for it. Like you, I also think that this tragedy deserves remembering and have tried to do my part. I have posted several compositions on liberal websites such as democraticunderground.com, dailykos.com, and others, reminding people of the 35th anniversary of this tragedy. My posts received many thanks and touching responses. On a personal level - My unit went into Cambodia on 2 May, to reinforce another unit which had been decimated the day before. On 6 May, we heard about Kent State, and I can remember the anger at the NG troops who had shot unarmed students. I am certain that Kent State was a turning point for many vets, as it was for me. Thank you and bless you for your fine work.
* John Lyons,
Nazareth, PA
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Date: 6 May 2005 13:41:33 GMT |
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Comment: This is an interesting website, but I have to take exception to your caption about the Black Panthers. How did they support sufferers of political repression in Laos and Cambodia by killing NY City Police Officers?
ALAN'S REPLY: Perhaps you are too young to remember the fact that the police killed far many more Black Panthers nationwide as part of COINTELPRO. Go to http://google.com and search for info about COINTELPRO. Read it and weep. Like 2005, America was dangerously close to fascism during the 1960's and early 1970s.
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Date: 6 May 2005 15:11:30 GMT |
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Comment: Hi Alan. I really like your new website, especially all of the pictures that you have added of the 4 dead students. I was wondering why there aren't any pictures of Bill Schroeder ? Just curious.Keep up the great website, and the memories. Don't let it die and be forgotten.
ALAN'S REPLY: Soon, we'll be adding many photos of ALL of our 4 martyrs at our educational, non-profit Kent May 4 Center web site: http://may4.org/
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Name: Pati Tiller |
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Date: 6 May 2005 23:05:05 GMT |
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Comment: I played the role of Mary Vecchio in the 1981 NBC-TV movie Kent State when I was 17. Since that time I have been fascinated by all that happened at Kent State and the people to which it happened. GOD bless you for keeping the cause alive.
ALAN'S REPLY: Thank you for your very thoughtful message. At Kent, we have an ongoing May 4 Movement for truth and a semblance of justice. I am certainly not alone in this quest. Our longstanding May 4 Movement includes our families of 1970 victims, many national supporters and, especially, our non-profit educational organization Kent May 4 Center as well as the fine young students of the May 4 Task Force student organization at Kent State University. Each year since 1975, when KSU stopped annual KSU-sponsored commemorations, the M4TF students have carried the ball. These students meet each week from September till May and organize educational programs culminating with the annual May 3-4 commemoration on the KSU Commons. All hail the May 4 Task Force students at KSU!
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Name: Thomas M. Rapone |
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Date: 8 May 2005 13:05:04 GMT |
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Comment: I have had the pleasure of meeting you when you spoke as a guest of the now defunct Free Speech Society in Virginia. I have been impressed with your passion and committment to this cause. I always think of this event as one of the most tragic events of OUR time. What upsets me most is our culture's complete denial as to the significance of what happened. We mistake technological advancement as cultural sophistication and simply turn the page. I hope that peace comes to Kent State one day. |
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Name: Mary Bruhnsen |
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Date: 12 May 2005 01:07:16 GMT |
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Comment: I started a research paper about the 1970's and my mother told me to take a hard look at the Kent State Massacre. I didn't know what it was but I do now and I thank you for making this website because it has truely enlightened me and showed me things I could have never learned from sitting in a classroom. You opened my eyes to this tragedy and the impact it had. Thank you
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Name: Paul Ledger |
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Date: 12 May 2005 14:57:02 GMT |
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Comment: Hi Alan, I feel a little out of place putting a comment on your website and i hope you are ok about it. I was only 6 when this event happened but i still have memories of the sorrow and anger that followed. I feel great sadness at the loss of dreams and hopes of such bright sparks of life wiped out in a moment of madness and hope that this website will remind all of the reason why were all here.....to live, explore and love. Good luck Paul |
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Name: Chuck Buckley |
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Date: 12 May 2005 22:42:57 GMT |
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Comment: Thank you for your tireless efforts in keeping this memory alive. I was 13 when this happened and I remember the riots in my hometown of Athens (Ohio University) vividly. My youngest son recently did a school project on the subject- facts & movie. Our children must know of this history. We're mired in another unjust war with, unbelievably, a more arrogant & power hungry president than we had then. We The People are in need of a stronger voice! My part is at my linked blog. !PEACE! |
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| Name: Jeff |
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Date: 16 May 2005 00:08:16 GMT | |
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Comment: Thank you for your time on helping Will and I with our History Day project. WE placed 2nd in the school, but lost in districts. I had alot of fun learning of your expirence. |
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Date: 17 May 2005 00:55:06 GMT | |
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Comment: I am a fan of classic rock, and, coincidentally, a history buff. I was listening to the radio one day and I heard Neil Young's song Ohio. Somehow it grabbed my attention, so I decided to do some research on the topic since I knew nothing about it. After all, it happened 13 years before I was born. Your site is a valuable resource. Thank you |
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| Name: Scott Taylor |
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Date: 31 May 2005 14:29:46 GMT | |
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Comment: Thanks for keeping it alive. This is the best overall site I've come across doing research on the May 4th shootings |
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Date: 1 Jun 2005 13:05:39 GMT | |
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Comment: Hey Alan, I just wanted to thank you. Way back in 1983, my girlfriend (now my wife) was in high school and I was helping her write a paper on Kent State. One of the books we were reading mentioned where you lived in Ohio. So I called information and got your number.I just thought it was so cool you would talk to a couple of High School kids who were writing a paper. I have never forgotten that and neither has my wife. Thank you so much.
P.S. By the way, she did get an A on her paper...I think the teacher was impressed that she actually spoke with someone who was there. |
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Comment: Hi Alan. Thanks for the great site you have! I can't believe what happened on May 4, 1970. I'm only 14, so I obviously don't remember it. In my social studies class, we are going to perform a mock trial based on the shootings (victims and their families vs. the government). Unfortunately, I am playing the part of the Mayor. We all needed to get info about the shootings to have a better understanding of the events, and my teacher recommended your site. Thanks for your protesting, sacrifices, and web site! |
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| Name: Ronnie Warren |
Email: ronnie_warren@rlseale.com.bb |
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Date: 7 Jun 2005 17:01:05 GMT | |
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Comment: In the picture there is a guy with a flag standing in front of the guardsmen, whatever happened to him? I was a freshman at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio in 1970. Kind regards.
ALAN'S REPLY: C'est moi, monsieur! For details, see: http://alancanfora.com/5.html I'm alive and well and still standing up against the forces of evil here in Ohio and America.
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| Name: Anthony Stewart |
Email: astewart9@mail.csuchico.edu |
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 23:22:32 GMT | |
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Comment: I was the poet, hit Athens (Ohio U) in 1970 or thereabouts. The Kent State Anniversary, the Athens cops (all 5) - standing on the corner of the Green. We built the traditonal bonfire at Court & Main, students and faculty taking over the ROTC building (or maybe it was the Administration), getting arrested and everyone getting home around 11:30.I slept in the old CAP office across the street from the Farmacy. I remember getting rousted by Mike Frye (a good cop), and having to personally turn in a shotgun to Captain Cochtran - pretty damn funny all in all. Later, being warned by the Mike to leave town - new feds had my name on their list... I remember Athens as it was, looking up from the street, neither townie nor student, the smell of coal smoke, Millfield and rust-red creek water along Route 13. The mountains have a long history of activism - thanks for keeping some of it!
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| Name: Anastasia |
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Date: 6 Jul 2005 03:58:11 GMT | |
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Comment: Alan, I was doing research on a paper I have to write about the Vietnam War, one thing I did mention was the Kent State Tragedy. While looking up information, this was the first site I came across. It gives so much information about what really happened. Every year in my school, on the date this happened, we go over it and this past year my teacher had a video from it. Great site!
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| Name: Dave Moncrief |
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Date: 9 Jul 2005 14:41:12 GMT | |
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Comment: What was the reason or symbolism of the black flag you were waving on that day?
ALAN'S REPLY: Thanks for your interest in our misunderstood Kent State tragedy. I chose black material on May 4, 1970, when I made two protest flags. Earlier, we purchased several colors of material for protest flags. Black symbolized my deep personal despair and anger at the time--soon after I attended the funeral of my good friend who was killed in Vietnam. For the inside story and all the details of my 1970 experience -- Vietnam/Kent State, war/anti-war -- see my memoir book available here before the end of summer.
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| Name: Robert Moore |
Email: RAMoore1159@aol.com |
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Date: 22 Jul 2005 02:20:19 GMT | |
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Comment: It is comforting to know that you and a handfull of others keep the rest of the world informed of the tragedy that befell you on May 4, 1970. I was 10 years old, my father a career military man. When I asked him why the military did what they did his reply was what they did was not enough. Thankfully, his opinion changed as more of the truth surfaced. Keep the faith Alan. And always remember that if we ever fail to remember our past, we are destined to relive it. God bless you.
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| Name: EZE ADAMUU |
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Date: 25 Jul 2005 17:53:03 GMT | |
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Comment: Great site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Name: Sally |
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Date: 5 Aug 2005 19:01:52 GMT | |
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Comment: FLOWERS ARE BETTER THAN BULLETS I'm sitting numb after hearing the news of 14 Ohioans killed in Iraq, trying to find some sense in the world and Kent State seemed to be the place to start. All I found for sense was the quote from Allison Krause. It could be said today or tomorrow and would be just as true as 35 years ago. When will we learn that killing our children is the deepest crime of all?
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Date: 16 Aug 2005 08:02:42 GMT | |
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Comment: I'm a high school student in Australia and was looking up stuff for an assignment and came across your site. Before reading this I knew nothing of this. I love your website and think it's inspirational knowing about what people were willing to stand up to for their beliefs. thank you
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Name: Alex S. |
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Comment: Hello Mr. Canfora,I enjoyed meeting you this summer as part of a teen trip I was on called Etgar 36 (etgar.org). Whenever I am asked about the highlights of my trip, your first hand discussion of the events that unfolded at Kent remains on my personal top 5. I wish you luck in all that you are striving to achieve. Alex
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| Name: Richard Ellwood |
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Date: 9 Sep 2005 18:08:12 GMT | |
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Comment: Alan, Thanks for this website. I was 13 in 1970; I am just now beginning to awaken from the spell of this world! May I use photos from your site in a ePoem I am writing? Peace. R
ALAN'S REPLY: All the photos are copyright-protected by the original photographers but you can use any for non-profit, educational purposes, in my opinion. Students can feel free to use any of the photos for educational school projects, of course.
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Date: 7 Oct 2005 17:23:26 GMT | |
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Comment: alan, as a young lad in fall 1989 i was attending ksu and i went to a meeting of the may 4 task force and although i felt a little out of place with the other members, you were real nice to me and always had a kind encouraging word. you were real nice to me and i appreciated that being far from home for the first time. well anyway, thanks and keep on keepin on. |
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| Name: D.Ormerod |
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Date: 9 Oct 2005 23:28:07 GMT | |
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Comment: Your site is a wealth of information. Great information for my son's History Day project! |
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Name: Micheal Roth |
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Date: 10 Oct 2005 23:53:28 GMT | |
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Comment: Mr.Canfora: I am a 14 year old student working on a project for my history class and i just wanted to let you know how your personal testomonies and the horror you witnessed on that day has helped me understand the full emotional impact this tragic event had on our society. This is an amazing site and i'd like to thank you for giving us personal accounts and emotions that I'll never research in any textbook. Your insight and memories of the shootings has shown me the tense spirited atmosphere that was of Kent State |
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Name: Alex |
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Comment: Hello Mr. Canfora, Thank you so much for meeting with the Etgar 36 group (www.etgar.org) this summer. Meeting with you was one of my favorite things on the trip. I appreciate you taking time to talk with us, and giving us first hand knowledge about what occured on that tragic day. This site is great, and thanks again for meeting with us! - Alex
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Date: 22 Oct 2005 00:14:30 GMT | |
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Comment: Just sent you an email regarding national history day and thought i should sign the guest book! |
| Name: Jonathan Lewis |
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Date: 22 Oct 2005 22:03:53 GMT | |
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Comment: Hey Alan. I just wanted to say thanks for making this website, which makes a great source for my 8th grade U.S. history project, thanks for providing an excellent Wall paper for my Computer (your flag picture). But most of all, thank you for your dedication and contributions to the fight against the misuse of power by the government of this country, and for making a stand, in the face of armed soldiers , on the 4th of May. Continue the fight against W.! -Jono
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Comment: Upon hearing the news, I felt such fear and exile from my own country. But at the same time, I felt less alone, part of the greatest tribe of our time. I try to think of it as a good thing when people from younger generations can't even fathom the tension and oppression which spawned it. There were social changes made in our generation that can never be repealed. And for that, you're all my heros. Paula Brown, Texas, USA
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Date: 9 Nov 2005 23:41:27 GMT | |
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Comment: Hello mr. canfora i just wanted to tell you that me and my friends love using your site for history fair it is an excellent source of information.
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Date: 10 Nov 2005 20:18:33 GMT | |
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Comment: We are working on a project in English class about the Kent State Massacre. We were wondering if we could talk with you about the incident and if you could answer some questions. We will be e-mailing you shortly. Thank you so much for your time. Sincerely, The students at PR high school
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| Name: Maggie Cress |
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Date: 14 Nov 2005 21:38:38 GMT | |
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Comment: Im doing a project for school and this website has helped me out a ton!!! thank you so much Maggie | |
| Name: Julia |
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Date: 16 Nov 2005 02:12:26 GMT | |
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Comment: thank you so much for your website! i am doing a school history fair project on the tradgedy of kent state. This site has given me everything i need and more to complete my project. |
| Name: Don Fleeher aka Mouse |
Email: dfleeher@greersteel.com |
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Date: 23 Nov 2005 18:16:59 GMT | |
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Comment: I was on probation when the shootings occurred at KSU and never returned as a student. Too many sad sad memories. I went back to visit several years later and was stunned by the change on the campus. Thank you so much for keeping this in the minds of this country. May it never ever happen again. Peace. Don Fleeher |
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Date: 27 Nov 2005 21:15:21 GMT | |
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Comment: I love your site. it is an excellent page for info. But i have one question, Do you have in information abou the guardsmen point of view?
ALAN'S REPLY: Unfortunately, the 1970 Ohio guardsmen basically maintain a conspiracy of silence. However, several guardsmen (including triggermen) appeared in the excellent 50-minute documentary film: "Kent State: The Day the War Came Home". It is available as a free DVD attached to the mediocre book "13 Seconds" by author Philip Caputo. The thin book is quite weak but the DVD is excellent and worth the $15 to $20 cost! Get it now at any big bookstore or online. |
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Name: Charles Flaherty |
Email: cflahert@mnsfld.edu |
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Date: 27 Nov 2005 14:43:11 GMT | |
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Comment: Alan: Excellent work. I'm a university police officer in Pennsylvania. I was born May 4, 1964. With the way our country is going, I'm praying history is not on the verge of repeating itself. |
| Name: Tim Herman |
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Date: 28 Nov 2005 14:51:01 GMT | |
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Comment: Your website is great. Thanks again for spending time on the phone interview conversation.
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| Name: lexie |
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Date: 3 Dec 2005 20:14:48 GMT | |
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Comment: do you think you have any photos or important magazine quotes from may 4,1970?
ALAN'S REPLY: See my Kent State 1970 PHOTO LINKS here at alancanfora.com or go to your local library to see 1970 magazines and newspapers. Ask your librarian for assistance there, if you prefer. |
| Name: Jess |
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Date: 4 Dec 2005 04:44:10 GMT | |
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Comment: hey this site is really cool. i like that you got the FBI reports in there good job on the site and keep up the good work!
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Date: 4 Dec 2005 16:09:14 GMT | |
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Comment: thanks alot for the phone interview. it straightened out alot of questions for me. and the site is awesome. thanks alot for your time. |
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Date: 6 Dec 2005 20:56:47 GMT | |
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Comment: We are only 2 12 year olds and this website really helped us. Thanks a ton man! |
| Name: Alex and Carston |
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Date: 12 Dec 2005 20:47:49 GMT | |
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Comment: We are doing a history project on the Kent State Tragedy. We would greatly appreciatete it if you could send us any extra information. We have found many things but still think there is more to know.
ALAN'S REPLY: There is much more to know. Soon, very soon, my book of memoirs will reveal tons of details in my inside story (the ONLY inside story) about Kent State 1970.
Meanwhile, I get many requests for added Kent State 1970 info, email interview questions, etc.
Here's a copy of the return email message I send to students seeking information beyond what I offer at my web site. If you or others contact me by email, here's the most recent version of my standard email reply:
Hello ______,
Thanks for your interest in our misunderstood 1970 tragedy.
As an eyewitness/victim at Kent State on May 4, 1970, I'm an expert interviewed often by students and others seeking information for History Day and other projects. If you prefer a phone interview (you can tape), let me know.
I do not have time to respond to email questions because I get too many.
I prefer mornings, especially weekend mornings, for phone interviews. Call at your convenience or I can call you from here. When?
Feel free to have your fellow-students, teacher or parent join the interview.
Meanwhile, see my web sites for best internet info and educational Kent State 1970 photos and links:
Let me know if and when you want an interview.
Best wishes,
--Alan
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Date: 10 Jan 2006 15:17:33 GMT | |
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Comment: nice web site. great job! |
| Name: matt gal |
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Date: 18 Jan 2006 22:26:12 GMT | |
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Comment: i'm currently working on my national history day project and this site has helped me get almost all of my information. thanks for creating it, keep up the good work |
| Name: Mark Hodges |
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Date: 26 Jan 2006 01:35:36 GMT | |
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Comment: Alan, your site is awesome, and it is very helpful. I am working on a school history fair project about Kent State. I got all that I needed here. Thank you
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Comment: Mr.Canfora, i'm a high school student doing a research project on Kent State and the protests that went on there. I am now amazingly proud of having a man like you in american history. my teacher assigned this to show me the downside of protesting the way i do around my high school, but you and the the others at Kent State that day, dead and alive, are now a shining example to me. Thank you.
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| Name: Linwood Koger |
Email: linwood44@yahoo.com |
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Date: 9 Feb 2006 22:32:25 GMT | |
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Comment: Alan - How can you denounce a book because of "biased" opinions when your own biography calls the national guard "triggermen"? You obviously hate anyone in uniform, so you can't objectively communicate their side of the story - this is the source of your bias. Peaceful protests are fine, but don't expect to us to have sympathy for people who threw rocks and charged the guardsmen BEFORE shots were fired. Tell the TRUTH for a change.
ALAN'S REPLY: My parents are World War II veterans. Like my mom and dad, I supported the Vietnam War until too many of our family friend's neighbors and relatives came home dead or wounded in an unwinnable war based upon lies. Many Vietnam veterans joined our protests in Kent and across America. See http://vvaw.org/ Also, over 1,200 Ohio National Guardsmen invaded Kent, Ohio, and the Kent State University campus. For your information, only less than 30 guardsmen pulled their triggers 67 times on May 4, 1970. Only about a dozen, mostly from Troop G (the death squad), fired directly into our crowd of unarmed students. These are the "triggermen", sir. I'm telling the truth and you are spreading mis-truths. I recommend you should closely read the conclusions of the FBI investigation report here within my educational web site. You will finally learn something so you can stop being so ill-informed. You simply cannot re-write true history to conform with your twisted Republican conservative viewpoint.
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