#And in the early 00s late 90s it was referenced in a ton of cartoons

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I think the most concerning part about sending troops to stop protests at universities isn't the action in and of itself (though it's fucked up), but the number of times I've seen people saying how they've never seen anything like this.

Like, no.

Vietnam. This happened with the Vietnam war. Columbia did something similar back then. Kent University. The whole flower in the gun imagery! "Love not war"! Flower Power! US history is full of omissions but it's startling sometimes to see how efficient we are at forgetting.