A Cellarful of Nose - Future Shoes

Plus, Clare she had a little white kitty who lived in her dorm
room, named Vicklebar, meaning "honeybear." The kitty cat was,
as many all-white cats are, congenitally deaf.
The town of Tuscarora was a place, in the late 60s, where all
hell was slated to break loose. Jeremy's classmates were part of a
staged riot for the benefit of the same National Guard unit that
would later open fire on the kids at Kent State. The mock riot was
supposed to train the unit how to respond to campus protest
situations. Since it was just Tusk Town, everyone expected the
student body – good upwardly-mobile Protestant children – to
play along, to be fake hippies for a while, then lay down their
daffodils.
But the mock-riot turned into an embarrassing disaster for the
Guard. Knowing it was just a game, and that no one would be
shot, students took advantage of the soldiers, who were just noncollege
kids the same approximate age, first taunting them, then
disarming them, then latching some of them inside a dairy barn on
the Tuscarora County Fairgrounds. Eventually the recruits lost
their cool and lofted real tear gas at the laughing, rioting students,
and a few of them, like Jeremy's friend Julia, whose foot was
bayoneted, got hurt and required actual medical care.
It was a painful and a televised experience for the members
of the unit, which perhaps explains why their 26-year-old
commander ordered the use of live ammo a year and a half later at
Kent State. "No more Tuscaroras!" might have been the slogan of
that interaction.
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