Posted on 05/03/2024 10:50:02 PM PDT by Morgana
The late David Crosby of Crosby Stills and Nash talks about the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State and how it lead to their song, "Ohio."
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The people responsible for the innocent kids who caught bullets were the damned rioters. They’d been tearing up that campus for weeks. They’d been given a lawful order to disperse and instead decided to start throwing rocks at men with loaded rifles.
Blaming the Guard for what happened is like blaming the IDF for the civilian casualties in Gaza. The SDS started the riot. They’re responsible for the dead and injured.
No one else.
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He is of the silent generation as most of the famous young people of the 60s were, including just about all the music.
I don’t buy that. In ‘65, Pete Townsend was too young to have been “messaging” people in who were born in the ‘30s, and with Keith Moon (b1947) as his drummer, The Who was not necessarily talking to me, but that doesn’t mean that the “silent” generation didn’t pick up on it.
“..60s was a different time and I grew up in them and had a good time. I’ll take the 60s over today’s BS any day. There was a lot of bad shxt but not near as bad as today....”
Agree...right there with ya.
‘69 429SJC Mustang was NOT an EV....LOL!
I recall that day well. There was a bunch of us sitting in the NCO club at Arlington Hall Station in Northern Virginia. A news flash came on the TV describing the incident. There were about 20 or so of us in the room, most of us war vets. We all stood up and cheered the National Guard.
My views on the subject never changed.
Nope...hillary still lives.
...Interesting times ahead.
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Wasn’t this an anvien5 Chinese proverb or some kind?
My eldest daughter went 5o Kent; that was on3 of the major points along her tour or the campus. Always made me ill dealing with how those clowns treat it with reverence.
I approve.
Oh man, I'm a cluster of emotions. I graduated in '69, kicked around for a couple of years while doing a local college, joined the USN in '71. The deaths of those 4 college students was hard to take...couldn't imagine being their parents. I was proud of our flag, supported our military, was behind our government's war in Vietnam, still cry when I visit the Vietnam Memorial. I hated hippies and spit on protesters and draft-dodgers (figuratively). Now days, I've changed and classify myself as a war-protestor. While I wouldn't escape to Canada if I was called up for duty, I no longer support America's wars around the world. As for the music of that age...it was too good to turn my back on. I just had to separate the music from the politics of the music. Have a lot of that music on VINYL. Still ticked off that I didn't attend Woodstock.
Ditto!!!
It’s a joke that popped up in the mid-1930’s, phrased as a “Chinese curse.” Full length version:
May you live in interesting times,
And come to the attention of important people.
… speaking of smelly …
I imagine he was just trying to make money and lyrics, but he might have been thinking of the generation who made the 60s, and that was his generation and his peers.
It was actually a Chinese curse: “may you live in interesting times“
Mine was a 69 GTO !! My best friend had a 69 Road Runner.. we had a lot of fun !!
The Guard shot too few, and the wrong ones to boot. Not a single SDS or other domestic terror leader was harmed.
The kneeling girl became a Miami prostitute...
“joined the USN in ‘71.”
I joined in ‘68—not sure yet where I was to be assigned.
Often played loudly around our base was, “We got to get outta this place if it’s the last thing we ever do”...
(Not that I can recall the group’s name). lol
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