<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">A song about the Kent State shootings . . .<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>“Four Dead in Ohio”</b></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Four_Dead_in_Ohio.mp3"> http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Four_Dead_in_Ohio.mp3</a><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Wars never prove who is right . . . only who is left.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Courtesy of <i>Wikipedia</i> at:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>————————————————-</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Kent State Shootings</span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">The <b>Kent State shootings</b>, also known as the <b>May 4 massacre</b> and the <b>Kent State massacre</b>, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_University" title="Kent State University"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Kent State University</span></a> students by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Army_National_Guard" title="Ohio Army National Guard"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Ohio National Guard</span></a> on May 4, 1970 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent,_Ohio" title="Kent, Ohio"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Kent, Ohio</span></a>, 40 miles south of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Cleveland</span></a>. The killings took place during a peace rally opposing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Campaign" title="Cambodian Campaign"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">expanding involvement of the Vietnam War</span></a> into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_country" title="Neutral country"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">neutral</span></a> Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. The incident marked the first time that a student had been killed in an anti-war gathering in United States history.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Twenty-eight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Guard" title="United States National Guard"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">National Guard</span></a> soldiers fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralysis" title="Paralysis"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">paralysis</span></a>. Students <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Beth_Krause" title="Allison Beth Krause"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Allison Beth Krause</span></a>, 19, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Miller_(shooting_victim)" title="Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim)"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Jeffrey Glenn Miller</span></a>, 20, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Lee_Scheuer" title="Sandra Lee Scheuer"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Sandra Lee Scheuer</span></a>, 20, died on the scene, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Knox_Schroeder" title="William Knox Schroeder"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">William Knox Schroeder</span></a>, 19, was pronounced dead at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Memorial_Hospital" title="Robinson Memorial Hospital"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Robinson Memorial Hospital</span></a> in nearby Ravenna shortly afterward. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Krause and Miller were among the upward of 300 students who gathered to protest the expansion of the Cambodian Campaign, which President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">Richard Nixon</span></a> had announced in an April 30 television address one week earlier. Scheuer and Schroeder were in the crowd of several hundred others who had been observing the proceedings at distances of more than 300 feet from the firing line; like most of the observers, they were watching the protest during a break between their classes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">The fatal shootings triggered immediate and massive outrage on campuses around the country. More than 4 million students participated in organized walk-outs at hundreds of universities, colleges and high schools, the largest student strike in the history of the United States at that time. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_strike_of_1970" title="Student strike of 1970"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">student strike of 1970</span></a> further affected public opinion at an already socially contentious time over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_the_United_States_in_the_Vietnam_War" title="Role of the United States in the Vietnam War"><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); text-decoration: none;">role of the United States in the Vietnam War</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div>———————-</div><div><br></div><div>Photo . . .</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Photos/Kent_State_050470.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Photos/Kent_State_050470.jpg</a></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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