As the day ends, remember "the Boy from Diamond Drive", Kent State

[NVMojo]

From THE HERETIK:

Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, of 22 Diamond Drive, Plainsview, L.I died at Kent State thirty five thirty six years ago May 4, 1970. He was killed by a single bullet to the mouth, a bullet shot from the gun of an Ohio State National Guard soldier. That bullet killed a boy and his hopes, but brought a nation to life, to remember what hope is. Hope must survive rage. I remember now the boy from Diamond Drive.

Just off Manetto Hill Road, Diamond Drive runs right alongside the Northern State Parkway and in sight of the Long Island Expressway. Jeffrey Miller, a graduate of a Plainview high school never came back to his Diamond Drive.

Jeffrey lived down the block from the Schiffmans, around the corner from the Brickmans and the Schettinis. He looked west for his chance to see Manhattan, the place of Long Island dreams, just a road away. When he woke up on the morning of May 4, 1970 at Kent State he could not have known he would end up on a far different road. I remember now the boy who never grows old. I remember now the boy from Diamond Drive.

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http://theheretik.us/2006/05/04/the-boy-from-diamond-drive/

[gauguin57]

1. Tin soldiers and nixon coming ...

Ohio
lyrics by Neil Young

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Tin soldiers and Nixon 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?

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?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

[ClassWarrior]

2. This summer is OUR chance to do some serious drumming...

...lest there be any more dead from another immoral war.

NGU.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Jeffrey Miller. Sandra Scheuer. William Schroeder. Allison Krause.

Two protesting the war. One watching the protest. One on his way to class.

Even thirty-six years later, I can still recite their names without a moment's notice.

Never forget. Ever.

[MADem]

4. THE picture

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0005/filo.htm

Good compiliation website, here http://www.may4.org/?q=node/7