This Summer I Hear the Drumming

Four Dead in Ohio.
Photo: John Filo (c) 1970 Valley News-Dispatch
Song Lyrics: Neil Young (c) 1970 Cotillion/Broken Arrow

Other people remember where they were when JFK was shot, or when the astronauts landed on the moon, or other events. This is the one I will always remember. At least Gov. James A. Rhodes, the man who compared the students protesting the April 30 expansion of American combat troops into Cambodia to brown shirts and night riders who were "the worst type of people that we harbor in America," and sent the National Guard in with loaded weapons, was subsequently thrown out of office and publicly vilified...

As if.

In reality, he was re-elected two more times, and this statue was erected in front of the state office building--the city's tallest building-- named for him in Columbus.

What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?












(c) Dania Hurley; obtained from Flickr