Well….May 4th 1970….four dead in Ohio…four students killed at Kent State University for exercising their first amendment rights to protest the actions of their government…this one hurts every year…as a 16 year old kid staring down the very real possibility of going to Vietnam to die for whatever reasons, these murders shattered what was left of the innocence and pride that I felt to be an American…I mean, how can the government send soldiers to kill students who did nothing but assemble and protest? Until that point I believed that the government of the US operated in good faith but that naivete was only the safety blanket that had insulated a 16 year old who only thought of 16 year old things til that day….but the thought of kids who were just a little older than I was being killed just because they pissed off Nixon and the others who were running the government really shocked me and took away the safety that I felt…I still feel that day even 50 years later…and seeing the archival footage  shows me how we haven’t progressed as a nation at all in that 50 years…and I still think Neil’s song says it best…just substitute trump for Nixon….”tin soldiers and Nixon comin, we’re finally on our own…” RIP…..Allison, Sandra, Jeffrey, and William…