All protesting was not peaceful back in the states. On May 4, 1970, students were protesting the American invasion of Cambodia when the Ohio National Guard were called in. At one point the guardsmen shot into the crowd of unarmed protesters and killed 4 students in what has come to be known as the Kent State Massacre (aka May 4 Massacre).
"Ohio" (1970) by Neil Young was written in response to the Kent State Massacre.
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 coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
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