Pandora-May 4th, 2009-Loss is Expected

In Memory of the Kent State Shootings, May 4th, 1970.

Additions to the space:

Individual flowers(13 total) placed in holes that had previously been empty on the stage flats(nod to the photo of Allison Krause placing a flower in the barrel of a National Guardsman's gun)

A string of flowers draped on the tree

Text taken from Wikipedia:

"They're worse than the brown shirts and the communist element and also the night riders and the vigilantes," Rhodes said. "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America. I think that we're up against the strongest, well-trained, militant, revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America."

Unknown speaker 1:"Suddenly, they turned around, got underneath, as if they were ordered to, they did it all together, aimed. And personally, I was standing there saying, they're not going to shoot, they can't do that. If they are going to shoot, it's going to be blank."

 

Unknown speaker 2: "The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a bullet passes your head, it makes a crack. I hit the ground behind the curve, looking over. I saw a student hit, he stumbled and failed, to where he was running towards the car. Another student tried to pull him behind the car, bullets were coming through the windows of the car.

"As this student fell behind the car, I saw another student go down, next to the curb, on the far side of the automobile, maybe 25 or 30 yards from where I was lying. It was maybe 25, 30, 35 seconds of sporadic firing.

"The firing stopped. I lay there maybe 10 or 15 seconds. I got up, I saw four or five students lying around the lot. By this time, it was like mass hysteria. Students were crying, they were screaming for ambulances. I heard some girl screaming, 'They didn't have blank, they didn't have blank,' no, they didn't."[19]

 

0.Jeffrey Glen Miller 265 ft (81 m) shot through the mouth - killed instantly

0.Allison Krause 343 ft (105 m) fatal left chest wound

0.William Knox Schroeder 382 ft (116 m) fatal chest wound

Sandra Lee Scheuer 390 ft (120 m) fatal neck wound

 

0.Joseph Lewis Jr. 71 ft (22 m); hit twice in the right abdomen and left lower leg

0.John R. Cleary 110 ft (34 m); upper left chest wound

0.Thomas Mark Grace 225 ft (69 m); struck in left ankle

0.Alan Canfora 225 ft (69 m); hit in his right wrist

0.Dean Kahler 300 ft (91 m); back wound fracturing the vertebrae - permanently paralyzed from the chest down

0.Douglas A. Wrentmore 329 ft (100 m); hit in his right knee

0.James Dennis Russell 375 ft (114 m); hit in his right thigh from a bullet and in the right forehead by birdshot - both wounds minor {died 2007}

0.Robert F. Stamps 495 ft (151 m); hit in his right buttock {died June 11, 2008}

Donald Scott MacKenzie 750 ft (230 m); neck wound

 "I think that the guardsmen were provoked beyond reason. I believe that we used every conceivable effort to get the people to disperse and to move, long before the formation moved up to the hill. And we regret this as much as anyone, that people were killed and wounded. We even regret the fact that it was necessary to be here."[24]