Originally Posted by
Mark E. Hurling
An interesting take on draft dodgers protecting draft dodgers.
It was a mess. Southern Illinois University went up for grabs. Riots in town and then on campus. The unrest at the University of Illinois had been quickly quelled by 500 Illinois State Police who then got sent South. They arrived like Sherman, already pissed off and ready to rumble. I just wanted to finish out Spring Quarter and go home. But then the first day the ISP arrived, some idiot threw a cinder block at them from the upper stories of the 12 story high rise dorm I was sleeping in. So the ISP dumped some CS into the air conditioning system.
As a result, 900 pissed off males, young dumb, and full of cum, erupted onto the East Campus that night. The next 2 days were bad and finally quieted down a little when Governor Ogilvy sent 3000 National Guard troops to flood the zone. The Governor closed the campus 6 weeks early and I came home to a highly pissed off Old Man who got further inflamed when he found out I was going to major in criminal justice. Took a couple of decades to reconcile that particular pesstivity.
I spent the afternoon in a larger company of scotch and cigar folk with the other 2 guys I talked about. The bomb guy got some old photos sent to him of the time and showed them to me. I was in one of the crowds pictured although not visible in them.