4 Dead in Ohio...

[GodSistah]

37 Years Ago Today...
The National Guard opens fire on student protesters at Kent State University.
Four dead. Nine wounded.

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 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?

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?

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

~Andrea~

[DaveM]

Lest we forget....

School shootings, it seems, are nothing new. It's just that once upon a time, they were committed under the color of authority (sarcasm).

And lest we forget....two more students died in Jackson, Mississippi under similar circumstances a short time later.

And let us pause to reflect for a moment on the likelihood that the shooting deaths of four college students nowadays almost certainly would not be commemorated even a few years later, much less 37. Not sure what that says about us as a society, but I don't think I like it.

[GodSistah]

LAPD uses Force to Disperse Immigration Marchers

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3086223&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

~Andrea~

[DaveM]

The more things change....

[Darlene]

The more they remain the same? Well kind of but it seems to be getting worse or I guess more dispersed spread out to all peoples. The African Americans, no one could match their history of pain. The Japanese in WWII?
Kent State? etc. I guess they do remain the same!
Peace, Darlene

[DaveM]

It is truly strange that humanity's capacity for cruelty seems to at least equal its capacity for constructive action. Heaven help us all on those occasions when both synchronize.

[Judy]

"WE'LL TO THE WOODS NO MORE, THE LAURELS ARE CUT DOWN"
--May Sarton
At Kent State

The war games are over,
The laurels all cut down.
We'll to the woods no more
With live ammunition
To murder our own children
Because they hated war.

The war games are over.
How many times in pain
We were given a choice -
"Sick of the violence"
(Oh passionate human voice!) -
Be buried it again.

The ware games are over.
Virile, each stood alone -
John, Robert, Martin Luther.
Still we invoke the gun,
Still make a choice for murder,
Bury the dead again.

The war games are over,
And all the laurel's gone.
Dead warrior, dead lover,
Was the war lost or won?
What say you, blasted head?
No answer from the dead.

[GodSistah]

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[pulmike]

I remember Kent State vividly. To me it seemed like the beginning of the end of the war. The real end took a very long time. It was a bittersweet for me. I came of age in those times. It was a time of anger and hope and of a youthful sense of power and permanence.

The power was real. The permanence not so much, as it turns out.

pulmike