Marking the 55th at Kent State & Cambodia

Flowers Makes a Pilgrimage to the Angkor Wat Complex, City of Temples

This is last night at Kent State University as the annual vigil for the May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre got underway. Starting just after midnight, vigil participants took turns over 12 hours, standing silently with lit candles on the exact locations where each of the four Kent State students were shot and killed at an antiwar campus protest against Nixon’s Vietnam war and Cambodian invasion.

In the space in the parking lot where Allison Krause was killed by an Ohio National Guard bullet, flowers now grow and honor her words, “What’s the matter with peace? Flowers are better than bullets.”

Flowers still bloom brightly later in the day on May 4, 2025, the 55th anniversary of Allison’s killing by U.S. military forces as she protested the Vietnam war and Cambodian invasion in this parking lot space at Kent State University.

Far away in a distant land, Flowers begins a journey for the 55th Kent State massacre in the sovereign nation of Cambodia where past horrors of U.S. imperialist aggression and President Nixon’s April 30, 1970 Cambodian invasion instigated the slaughter of U.S. student protesters who rallied against his war.

Flowers explores Cambodia and makes ceremony in just a few of the thousands of temples in Cambodia.

Take this sacred procession with Flowers at the Angkor Wat Complex, City of Temples, on May 4, 2025, the 55th anniversary of the Kent State massacre.

Stay tuned as Flowers and her companion continue their pilgrimage in Vietnam and Cambodia.