Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday The war in Vietnam was escalating and protests were being staged everywhere. This was a war that the U.S. people felt we didn't belong in. The truth is we weren't really wanted there either. More people would die in this conflict than in the previous Korean conflict. All we as a people wanted to know is why we there and what our young men were dying for. Protests were happening on campuses throughout the country. On the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on there was a peaceful prote