[[link removed]] Lies Kill [[link removed]] Jim WallisMonday, May 4 was the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Thirteen
students were shot and four killed by the Ohio National Guard during a Vietnam
War protest after the invasion of Cambodia. On that day, I was a student up the
road at Michigan State University, helping lead Vietnam protests there. It all
felt very personal. It still does.

We were young, and so were the students who were killed — two 19 and two 20.
Allison Krause, Jeffery Miller, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer, two
protesters and two observers on the way to class, were killed when Guardsmen
opened fire on unarmed young civilians.

Here was a senseless war — that we as young people were asked to fight in, and
in which many of our friends were losing their lives — and we decided to
question it. After investigating the history of Indochina and stated reasons for
war from the administration, we came to the conclusion that the Vietnam War was
based on lies. Or as a protest banner from the soldiers who saw the brutalities
in Vietnam first hand put it, “The Whole Damn Thing Was A Lie.” Our government
leaders distorted the truth to justify a deadly battle that was fought for
geopolitical and ideological motivations.

Having experienced all of that history, I should have known how hard it would
hit me when the death toll from the coronavirus surpassed the death toll in
Vietnam — in only two months compared to nearly 20 years. I began to count the
unadmitted mistakes and lies about the deadly virus, from China to the White
House.

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