4 dead in Ohio

[AVB]

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

The students were protesting the American invasion of Cambodia which President Richard Nixon launched on April 25, and announced in a television address five days later.
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, high schools, and even middle schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of eight million students, and the event further divided the country along political lines.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

 

[tsmckenney]

Good to be reminded of such significant historical events. Thanks AVB.

 

[Dickson]

I was ten when that happened...I feel just as bad now as I did then. Thanks for the reminder brother. "Lest We Forget"

 

[Saxjazzman]

I remember that when it went down. Someone wrote a poem about it and it sounds something like

A candle burns
it flickers
and learns
and goes
out, out

Short but I never forgot it.

ed;sp

 

[Rodrigo de Jerez]

I just wrote about it in a history paper. Maybe I am too young after all.

 

[Gator]

Southern Man don't need him around, anyhow.