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#Wikipedia: " 'Tin soldiers and Nixon coming' refers to the #KentState shootings, where Ohio #NationalGuard officers shot and killed four students during a #protest against the #VietnamWar. Crosby once stated that Young keeping #Nixon's name in the lyrics was 'the bravest thing I ever heard.' "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_(Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_%26_Young_song)

#KentStateMassacre #NationalGuard #KentStateShooting #AntiWar #Protests #Resistance

Ohio

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
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?

Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting 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?

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio"

- #NeilYoung, 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxl9R_2ax-8

#KentStateMassacre #NationalGuard #FridayNightMusicVideos #KentStateShooting #AntiWar #Protests #FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusic

@spiegelmama

#USHistoryRevisited
#KentStateShooting by #OhioNationalGuard

(4/n)

...should be remembered in order that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. 👉The #Guardsmen in their signed statement at the end of the civil trials recognized that better ways have to be found to deal with these types of confrontations.👈 This has probably already occurred in numerous situations...

@spiegelmama

#USHistoryRevisited
#KentStateShooting by #OhioNationalGuard

(2/n)

...back then--in contrast to June, 2026--it even was a legal deployment if the #Ohio #NationalGuard 💂, requested by #Kent #MayorSatrom.

Even so, it seems to have proven to be the first stone in the avalanche that was to shatter the #Nixon Administration:

"H. R. #Haldeman, a top aide to President #RichardNixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In...