Holly Mills wrote about the Kent State Massacre:  

 

For myself, I didn't learn about May 4 until after my family returned to
the states; we were in the process of moving overseas when it happened,
and the Stars and Stripes didn't seem to spend much time on it, at least
as far as I could tell.  

 

On May 4, 1970 I was with MAG-13 at Chu Lai; Stars and Stripes and AFVN
did, indeed, cover Kent State.  I remember nothing of the coverage but
the news was not withheld.

 

 But it is certainly true that the news coverage was different in the
military media than in the rest of the US.  One summer night, 1970, a VC
unit overran a Buddhist Orphanage near Chu Lai, decapitated the monk,
and through satchel charges into the bunker with the children.  Stars
and Stripes and AFVN carried the story so I was shocked when I returned
Stateside to learn that no one back home had heard anything about it.  

 

I'm not sure what the moral of this is, probably that none of us is
quite as well informed as we think we are.

 

Paul R. Scott, CA, CRM

Records Management Officer

Harris County, TX

 

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