OHIO
~Neil Young

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 gunning 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?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning 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?

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

One rumor has it that the Guardsmen were told the same night that they would never be prosecuted by the state of Ohio. And they never were. The Nixon administration stalled for years, announcing "investigations" that led nowhere; White House tapes subsequently released show that Nixon thought demonstrators were bums, asked the Secret Service to go beat them up, and apparently felt that the Kent State victims had it coming. As did most of the country; William Gordon calls the killings "the most popular murders ever committed in the United States."

I have the 45 of that song. So sad what happened. They didn't deserve to die...

Doesn't seem that it happened so long ago. And another sad is that most people under 40 years old probably don't even know what it was all about. Thank you, Neil Young, for the memorial to what did happen, and thank you, Wyld, for reminding us.

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Capt. Zap (part-time "bum")

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I remember when I heard the news... I went numb...OUR soldiers were shooting US! It was beyond my comprehension at that time. It is still beyond my comprehension. All violence is beyond me, though it is far too real.

Praying that we are not heading in that direction again.