Do not tweet #MayThe4th be with you. (Unless you add this other hashtag.)

The Gym Annex at Kent State University, with Bill Schroeder’s memorial in the foreground. Ben Wolford/The Portager

Do not tweet #MayThe4th be with you. (Unless you add this other hashtag.)

- Ben Wolford

I love Star Wars. I’ve seen every movie in the franchise, most of them multiple times. I even read some of the Expanded Universe books when I was a kid.

But I hate Star Wars Day.

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