It is 7 below zero F today. We are on a warming trend.
Never mind things have been boiling hot for weeks.

It is a sad day

We aren’t terrorists.
Domestic or otherwise.
We are mothers and fathers
We are sisters and brothers

Poets and authors
Dancers and singers
Teachers and nurses

We are you
We are the faces of America
We love our country
We believe in our laws
We cherish our rights

What is wrong with us?
Are we the only ones to see?

1965
On March 7, 1965, an estimated 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed southeast out of Selma. The protest went according to plan until the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they encountered a wall of state troopers and county posse waiting for them on the other side.
The county sheriff had issued an order for all white men in Dallas County over the age of twenty-one to report to the courthouse that morning to be deputized. Commanding officer John Cloud told the demonstrators to disband at once and go home. Rev. Hosea Williams tried to speak to the officer, but Cloud curtly informed him there was nothing to discuss. Seconds later, the troopers began shoving the demonstrators, knocking many to the ground and beating them with nightsticks. Another detachment of troopers fired tear gas, and mounted troopers charged the crowd on horseback.

1970
Four unarmed college students were killed and nine wounded by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970.
The shootings triggered immediate and massive outrage on campuses around the country. It increased participation in the student strike that began on May 1. Ultimately, more than 4 million students participated in organized walk-outs at hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools. The shootings and the strike affected public opinion at an already socially contentious time over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
Eight of the shooters were charged with depriving the student of their civil rights but were acquitted in a bench trial. The trial judge stated, “It is vital that state and National Guard officials not regard this decision as authorizing or approving the use of force against demonstrators, whatever the occasion of the issue involved. Such use of force is, and was, deplorable.”

This is our history.
We have been here before.

Have we become so fat and happy
Are we so detached
We don’t believe our own eyes?

It is a sad day.
Say their names
Rene Good – Poet, mother of three
Alex Pretti – VA ICU Nurse

Shame Shame Shame