more fono-folly (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Gee, I think I knew that before Kent State. Maybe I just guessed it.

Seriously, folks, I remember news film of the incident complete with the
stupidest idiot I've ever seen yelling to the crowd, "They're not real
bullets! They're not real bullets!"

JL

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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> > One of the lessons of Kent State is don't throw bags of shit at 20 year
> > olds with guns.
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> Nobody ever explained it to me that way, before.
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