Four Dead in O-hi-o
May. 5th, 2006 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeI was editing my last entry about Kent State (to add the link to the photo of Jeff Miller lying in the room) and while searching for the photo online, found this. This could be either really interesting or cringe-inducing. I love living history--I was always into dioramas and pageants and stuff like that. I love being reminded that "this person really existed, they moved, and grew, and interacted with people, and changed." Even some thing as simple as seeing a new picture of an historical figure jolts that realization--I existed. I was here. I saw a picture of Jeffrey Miller I'd never seen before and just considered it--he had a great smile. Needless to say, most of the pictures I've seen of him were from news footage of that day--a few of him marching, flipping off the Guard, one of him in a crowd. And then you see this kid with a big ol' head of hair and a sweet smile. Months or years before he stopped in time, and became an icon.
OTOH, if this theater piece is way too heavy on the weeping and wailing and the bad poetry (that is--if it starts with the premise that the tragedy has already happened, instead of making the audience experience it for the first time), it might be horrible.
Oh who am I kidding? I'd love to play Allison Krause or Sandy Scheuer. Not that they'd cast Shiksa Destroyer Goddess Me.
OTOH, if this theater piece is way too heavy on the weeping and wailing and the bad poetry (that is--if it starts with the premise that the tragedy has already happened, instead of making the audience experience it for the first time), it might be horrible.
Oh who am I kidding? I'd love to play Allison Krause or Sandy Scheuer. Not that they'd cast Shiksa Destroyer Goddess Me.
