POLITICS

Four Dead In O-Hi-O

Post-traumatic stress from 13 seconds in 1970

Tear gas has become as ubiquitous as signs of protests in political discourse these days. (Shutterstock photo from LuizSouza)

The problem with living as long as I have is that history often repeats itself. I will be in 71 in just a couple of weeks on May 3rd.

The latest news of campus protests haunts me. My thoughts go back to May 4, 1970, when, a day after my 17th birthday, the headlines screamed that four…