Saint George does it again!
Last May, when Mary Ann Vecchio watched the video of George Floyd’s dying moments, she felt herself plummet through time and space — to a day almost exactly 50 years earlier. On that May 4 afternoon in 1970, the world was just as riveted by an image that showed the life draining out of a young man on the ground, this one a black-and-white still photo.
Mary Ann was at the center of that photo, her arms raised in anguish, begging for help.
That photo, of her kneeling over the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller, is one of the most important images of the 20th century. Taken by student photographer John Filo, it captures Mary Ann’s raw grief and disbelief at the realization that the nation’s soldiers had just fired at its own children.
When her parents fought, she and her brothers and sisters would scatter, with Mary Ann hiding out in spots as far away as Miami Beach, some 15 miles from home.
Soon she got in trouble — smoking pot, skipping school. So in February 1970, when the police told Mary Ann, then 14, that they’d throw her in jail if they caught her playing hooky one more time, she took off — in her bare feet. She says she wasn’t rebelling against her parents’ authority or seeking to join the antiwar movement: “I just wanted to be anywhere that wasn’t Opa-locka.”
Hitchhiking her way across the country, Mary Ann slept in fields, at hamburger shacks, at crash pads, working here and there for money for food, which she shared with other kids who were also bumming around. Seeing the country, meeting new people, sharing music and the occasional joint — the adventure had that feeling of magic from her childhood. Until, that is, she got to Kent State in northern Ohio, where, on May 4, student protests erupted over President Richard Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia.
Last May, however, when she watched the video of George Floyd’s death, she was so shaken, it was as if the electronic scrim of her TV had dissolved. She jumped off her couch and yelled at the crowd in the video, “Why is no one helping him?” She sobs as she describes that moment to me. “Doesn’t anyone see what’s going on?”
Last May, however, when she watched the video of George Floyd’s death, she was so shaken, it was as if she needed attention again.
stfu
Kent and Floyd are not even the same thing.
You wanna see Kent style tragedy? Go take a seat in the middle of Chicago and see what the feds and state are allowing the locals to do to each other and the businesses they wreck.
the gov’t kills people
nixon was an asshole
the photographer got famous & $$$$
the kid got used
Kent was a REAL moment in History (not manufactured)
The USA (some people) have been trying repeatedly to re-create the 60’s to change political direction. FALSELY
Floyd was nothing like these students
Today’s students are NOTHING like the Kent state students. Currently with no real purpose.
She seems to be OK with Capital Police gunning down a woman for protesting on January 6th, though. Go figure!
@Hambone
GOOD POINT!
It’s Deja Vu all over again. And shouldn’t they be playing Ohio by CSN&Y in the background. Having lived thru the late 60’s and early 70’s I don’t want to see to see a repeat of it.
Kent State Antifa!!!
She got he 15 minutes of fame and liked it so much she took a Mulligan…
Due to the photo of her at Kent State, she has enjoyed a perpetual 15 minutes of fame. Out of the woodwork indeed.
I have no interest in her opinion on any subject, particularly in support of Floyd the perpetual criminal’s actions after he keyholed a lethal amount of fentynal which initiated his demise.
Go back to the woodwork, another 15 minutes of fame is denied.
Soon the progressive platform will be doing the same thing to white people with as little concern.nobodys right when everbodys wrong.what is happening is not justice, it’s not fair it’s just revenge. Payback and a reason for more hate and bloodshed. The world doesn’t know love and only love can conquer hate. God’s love displayed in the Bible is the only true love that exists. When we believe in, trust in such a God and His love His saving grace can elevate us above the hate, racism and revenge of godless human reason.
This article is wrought with the self pitying victim hood rants of a 65 yo woman who, having inserted herself into a moment in history, by happenstance… a 14 yo runaway, wound up at Kent State in the midst of the anti war protest.
Fast forward….having never achieved much in life post Kent and to this day claims PTSD as a result of having her photo captured during the shooting and relates this to being on the battlefield among war veterans, tells me all I need to know about poor, poor Mary Ann Vecchio.
She’s a delusional narcissist looking to insert herself into yet another national storyline having nothing to do with her life.
She’s doing it wrong, she should be sitting on some Chinese anti aircraft equipment getting her picture taken for the enemy propaganda.
If she did that a lot of Vietnam vets after they finish pissing on hanoi jane’s and john effin kerry’s graves would line up to piss on her grave as well. Maybe all their graves should be shaped like large trough urinals for the veterans to piss in.
…if the Guard had taken the opportunity to shoot ALL the hippies THEN, we’d be in MUCH better shape NOW…
One side benefit of Kent State, it pretty much brought an end to violent anti war protests.
She should be grateful she escaped a prison sentence unlike the rest of Charles Manson’s girls.
So it’s safe to assume that she’s still an asshole?
The key takeaway here is she was created by two a_s Ho_es.
Just think – If she hadn’t stopped to talk to Jeffrey Miller he may not have been in that exact location to be struck by a bullet, and he may still be alive today…