CONTEXT: The Kent State murders of teenagers protesting, and two simply going to class, stunned North American youth in the period of the Vietnam war, making Nixon the most hated president by that generation. Alexandria was only a baby and was too young to understand what was happening – this is the context of her birth, that marked all young people only short years beyond her babyhood.
And Neil Young’s song, Four Dead in Ohio: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we’re finally on our own.
Dennis Reid -
CONTEXT: The Kent State murders of teenagers protesting, and two simply going to class, stunned North American youth in the period of the Vietnam war, making Nixon the most hated president by that generation. Alexandria was only a baby and was too young to understand what was happening – this is the context of her birth, that marked all young people only short years beyond her babyhood.
And Neil Young’s song, Four Dead in Ohio: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we’re finally on our own.