ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 5, 1995                   TAG: 9505050091
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: KENT, OHIO                                LENGTH: Short

3,000 REMEMBER KENT STATE

Kent State remembered with the tolling of a bell, a chalk message in a parking lot, and silence.

There were peace signs and people dancing barefoot. Peter, Paul and Mary sang ``Blowin' in the Wind.'' Some lit candles.

About 3,000 people showed up Thursday to mark the day 25 years ago that a cluster of National Guardsmen opened fire and killed four students during an anti-war protest.

Some in the crowd weren't born back then. Others remember all too well.

In the hilltop parking lot where the slain students fell, silent candlebearers stood vigil from midnight until a bell tolled at exactly 12:24 p.m., the moment the shooting began.

Around them, people chalked peace signs, flowers and messages into the blacktop. ``Has anything in the way of change become real? Have we learned?'' one said.

The school's victory bell rang 15 times - once for each of the 13 students killed or wounded and once for each of two students killed at Jackson State University in Mississippi 10 days later. 


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