Mr. Speaker, 25 years ago today on a beautiful May morning a young woman put a daisy in the barrel of a national guardsman's gun. A few moments later, nine young men and women lay dead. With them died the dream of peace of the sixties generation.
Kent State's tragedy brought the Vietnam conflict home to the United States, but at the same time it pointed out a great difference between the cultures of Canada and the U.S. That same week thousands of young Canadians graduated from universities and the joy of our success was tempered by the tragedy in Ohio.
In our contemplation then as now, we were grateful for our kinder, gentler nation. We still are. For many of the sixties generation who now serve here, we pay tribute to those fallen youth by promising to stand forever on guard for tolerance.