Another May Day, Another War

Please excuse the reproduction of the photos. I have been having problems and did not have time to secure better images. Their juxtaposition, the late Pat Englehart might say, is too imortant to wait.

The photo at left is from May 4, 1970 and the one at right from May 4, 2006. The 1970 photo by John Filo shows Mary Ann Vecchio over the body of Jeffery Miller one of the students shot to death in the Vietnam War protest on the Kent State University campus. Vecchio, now 50, returned to the spot to remind 500 gathered for the memorial service that once again Americans have an ill feeling about the war. The evidence, she said, is next to the crowd where a peace group placed more than 2,000 markers carryng the names of Americans killed in Iraq. The 2006 photo by Beacon Journal photographer Karen Schiely shows May 4 Take Force staff adviser Karen Cunninghman hugging Vecchio.The photo along with one of the crosses was published on page B1 of Friday’s newspaper.