@leeeoooooo, I actually honestly thought you were referring to the current government of the United States voting today feasibly against the continued health of its less wealthy citizens.
I also didn’t know of this incident that CSNY was referring to in that song even though I’ve heard it many times.
If not for the fact that there are mehmbers younger than me on this site, I’d feel really young compared to most of the mehmbers whose birthyears I know.
There was such a dense concentration of American energy there, American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. […] I knew one 4th division Lurp who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it. He told me that they cooled things out just right for him, that could see that old jungle at night like he was looking at it through a starlight scope. “They sure give you the range,” he said.
The one good thing to come out of the Kent State massacre is that it inspired Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh to form DEVO as an artistic response. Both were students at Kent State at the time, and Casale knew two of the victims personally.
Here’s the speech Gerald Casale made at KSU on the 40th Anniversary:
There are always a plethora of notable events for any given day.
I remember it too.
But on May 4th also these:
1989 NASA launches Magellan mission to Venus from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
1984 Dave Kingman’s fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, D.C.
1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1953 Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man & The Sea”
1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1818 Netherlands & Britain sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded in Boston, James Bowdoin, John and Samuel Adams founding members
And much more.
We have the good, the bad, the trivial, the tragic.
When has anyone ever been completely safe from their government? When has anyone ever been completely safe?
We just keep going.
Four dead in Ohio
An Oddity is that she was a run away high school kid from Hialeah.
@leeeoooooo, I actually honestly thought you were referring to the current government of the United States voting today feasibly against the continued health of its less wealthy citizens.
I also didn’t know of this incident that CSNY was referring to in that song even though I’ve heard it many times.
tin soldiers and nixon coming
i also grew up in OH-IO
MLK assassination April 1968.
Kent State shootings May 1968.
RFK assassination June 1968.
Dark year.
@f00l I was born July 1968.
I’d like to say I turned things around in some small way but that’d be pretty conceited of me.
@timjump
If not for the fact that there are mehmbers younger than me on this site, I’d feel really young compared to most of the mehmbers whose birthyears I know.
@timjump If so, you can take credit for Aug 28, 1968. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/protests-at-democratic-national-convention-in-chicago
@OldCatLady
@timjump
Don’t forget
Tet Offensive/Dates
Jan 30, 1968 – Sep 23, 1968
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive
Dispatches
by Michael Herr
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatches_(book)
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by American journalist Frances FitzGerald
Winner, Pulitzer Prize
Winner, National Book Award
Winner, Bancroft Prize
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Lake
Tet Offensive: Turning Point in Vietnam War
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/31/world/tet-offensive-turning-point-in-vietnam-war.html
Thank you, @leeeoooooo, for reminding us that any semblance of a government “…for the people…” fades with each passing day.
The events portrayed in the Star Wars films happened long before any of the stuff mentioned above.
The one good thing to come out of the Kent State massacre is that it inspired Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh to form DEVO as an artistic response. Both were students at Kent State at the time, and Casale knew two of the victims personally.
Here’s the speech Gerald Casale made at KSU on the 40th Anniversary:
I’m a Kent State student. It’s hard to feel like having fun talking about star wars on May 4th.
@leeeoooooo, @Yoda, @sanspoint - I’m also in Ohio and went to Kent state as well. Only now I have “Whip It” stuck in my head.