Reaching Across the Generations to Oppose War

Image by Valeriia Miler.

Although I am now a mother and grandmother, when I was in college in the early 1970s I protested against the Vietnam War. Thankfully, all the protests I joined stayed peaceful. I was lucky I wasn’t at Kent State University, where, on May 4, 1970, four unarmed student protesters were shot and killed and another nine were wounded by the Ohio National Guard, which had opened fire on them with high-powered rifles.

Even though the demonstrations in which I participated were peaceful...