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karynnj

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8. "when protests against the Vietnam war turned violent"

Reply to BeyondGeography (Original post)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 10:01 AM

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This is like Trump's claim in Portland. From memory, though protestors challenged the guard and were in places they were asked to leave, the protests themselves did not become violent. The guard response did.

As a student at IU, I remember the shock and intense fear that our government would shoot people like us.

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