Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
(“Ohio”, Lyrics, Neil Young)
17 dead in Parkland, a new generation of youth, all of whom were not even born, when the Columbine High School massacre occurred on April 20, 1999, leaving 13 dead and 21 innocents injured, taking to the streets in protest, finally insisting that #Never Again, actually finds footing in the frail and fawning politicians more afraid of the NRA than proud of freedom for most Americans. History continues to repeat itself in this world, and too often any lesson learned, is soon forgotten due to the self-serving interested of those who can either make a profit from evil, or whose own desire is to place self before country.
So, here I am a man of 68, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s, witnessed and participated in protests against the endeavors of a government, concerned not with the pursuit of happiness for all, but more indulged in the particulars of their own political purposes. I have wondered and waited for the time when WE as a nation would wake up and be less willing to remain as lemmings, following the next liar, the next shyster, the con artist to the cliff. Today, in the wake of generations of bad news regarding the love affair with weapons of war, I applaud and feel pride as teens, FINALLY, step forward and face the monsters who prefer death over life!
