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♫ OHIO ♫

Today’s addition to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Week is the one that was most mentioned/requested, and I think it is quite possibly the single best protest song ever written!  It’s an all-time favourite of mine. Neil Young wrote Ohio shortly after seeing a news report on the tragedy, and it was released by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young just 10 days after the shootings. The Kent State shootings…

♫ OHIO ♫

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♫ OHIO ♫ (Redux)

Today marks an important date in the history of the U.S., the 53rd anniversary of the brutal slaying of four students by National Guardsmen on the campus of Kent State University on 04 May 1970.  I offer up this song as a remembrance of that horrific day … and a wish that we could learn from our past so as not to keep repeating those same mistakes. Neil Young wrote Ohio shortly after seeing a…

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(WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo)

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♫ OHIO ♫

Had I remembered the all-important date of May 4th, this is the song I would have played yesterday, on the 50th anniversary of the brutal slaying of four students by National Guardsmen on the campus of Kent State University on 04 May 1970.  I did not remember until Jeff reminded me with his post yesterday afternoon, so I am one day late with this song.

Neil Young wrote Ohioshortly after seeing a…

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Recalling Kent State, 50 years after

Recalling Kent State, 50 years after

Thirty years ago today, The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY, published a series of articles I wrote about a Syracuse native, Tom Grace, who was one of the nine students wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

Four students were killed, of course, during the anti-war protest.

Now here we are, 50 years after that horrific day. Grace was a 20-year-old history major…

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