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The famous photograph


The site where the photograph was taken




The monument that honors those who where killed that day



A poem that was written by Jeffery Miller who among the four who where killed in the shooting. He wrote this when he was sixteen.

Where Does It End?

The strife and fighting continue into the night.
Mechanical birds sound of death as they buzz
overhead,
spitting fire into the doomed towns where the women
and children run and hide in the bushes and ask why-
why are we not left to live our own lives?

In the pastures converted into battlefields
the small metal pellets speed through the air,
pausing occasionally to claim another victim.
A teenager from a small Ohio farm clutches his side
in pain and as he feels his life ebbing away, he too
asks why-
why is he dying here, thousands of miles from home,
giving his life for those who did not even ask his help?
The War Without a Purpose marches on relentlessly,
not stopping to mourn for its dead,
content to wait for its end.
But all the frightened parents who still have their sons
fear that
the end is not in sight.



"Flowers are better than bullets!"

- Allison Krause who was another of the four that was killed in the shootings.



Here's something that you'll find intresting

http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70 ... ertov.html



Here's poem that I wrote for remembering this day.

Kent State

O what a Day it came to be
Students of long ago gathered to voice their concern
Bury the Constitution because they didnÂ’t believe it to be true anymore
They met with resistance from the powers that be
Fleeing the tear gas cloud of retribution
The Guard sought to pursue and disperse them
But the Students held their ground as the armed forces of the Establishment advanced towards them
Then the Guard turned away and marched back into possible retreat
The Students they had persevered against this tyranny
But then from out of nowhere
Shots began to ring out and pierced their flesh and bone
When the Guard stopped shooting four where to be found dead
Cries of anguished and looks of shock and despair where now on the StudentÂ’s faces
Like a flash the word went out across the land
4 DEAD IN OHIO
Years later monuments and memories where erected and put into place to remember innocence now dead
One Question I have to ask did the Guard hide away their regret at what they had done?
Let the present and the future forever and never forget the Past
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i hope the radio stations will be playin "Ohio" by Neil Young et al.

I didn´t know about it.
Did the students march against the Vietnam War or against discrimination?
Levertov´s corrected poem is very moving.
Saludos,

Arcadia

They marched against both!!!!
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