Flowers Are Better Than Bullets from vietnam war dead images Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 15 sec
✓ Published: 13-Jan-2011

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Flowers are Better than Bullets was inspired by two events when I was in fifth grade in the spring of 1970. April 22 was the celebration of the first Earth Day and our wonderful teacher, Mr. Osborn, let us spend an entire day planting a garden outside of our classroom. Less than two weeks later, on May 4th, four students were shot dead on the Kent State campus following a demonstration against the unlawful expansion of the Vietnam war into Cambodia by President Nixon. These two events shaped my