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[Photo: Kent State Archives ] The National Guard crosses the Commons area of the Kent State campus shortly before the shooting began on May 4, 1970.

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In the early morning Thursday, Kent State junior Megan Spaner places a candle on one of the memorials for the students killed 30 years ago.

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Dean Kahler, paralyzed from the waist down when he was shot in the massacre at Kent State, and his mother, Elaine Holstein, spend a quiet moment at the memorial site of slain student Jeffrey Miller.

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Every May 4 at 12:24 p.m. -- the time of the shootings -- the Kent State victory bell rings once for every student wounded or killed. When it sounded Thursday, freshmen Cara Jamieson, left, and Amanda Carey, born a decade after the event, share in the lingering emotion.

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Times photographer Bill Serne, left, and Robby Stamps, wounded in the Kent State shootings, pose in front of The Pagoda monument, the spot where the National Guard opened fire. The photograph was taken by Dean Kahler, who was left paralyzed by a bullet in the massacre

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The events commemorating the massacre drew throngs from on and off campus. Here, JoAnn Mangione of Cleveland holds a carnation while listening to speakers.

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At sunrise Thursday, Jim Isaacs, a 1986 graduate of Kent State, stands over the memorial of slain student Allison Krause. Isaacs, of Dublin, Ireland, made the trip just to hold a candle at this spot.

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