Today is May 4.

Great post, Dave.  I remember it well.
 
Bill, tgo

Thanks Dave, for bringing this event to our attention.
 
Peace
Tom

Thanks Dave.

yesterday was May 3, the day the F5 tornado hit Moore Okla, May 3 1999

Brings up memories of sitting together with my brothetr listening to our old recordplayer on the attic studio ...
I didn't made the link with the 4th of may, i do though with Ohio ...
 
 
BTW: my daughter JUlie is now sitting next to me rading out loud his English textes for her exams (last semester it was about Australian history, now about US history. She is now reading me about the Civil War in the US (it seems some called it the war between the states. The stories about the native americans I got already ...
 
There IS a lot to learn about people!!!
 
Paul the bad one

Paul:
 
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University who were protesting the Vietnam war and, specifically, the disclosure of Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia.  4 students were killed and 9 wounded (four dead in O-HI-O).  Ten days later, May 14, 1970, 2 more students were shot to death at Jackson State University in Mississippi.  Here's a wikipedia link:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
 
Not one of the proudest moments of American history, IMHO.  
 
Bill, tgo

And the band plays on!

I was on ly 7 1/2 years old but I remember it.

Yes, it was a black moment for this country, but we seem to have a few of those don't we. Like the 1968 democratic convention and mayor Dailys 'shoot to kill' order.

In 1970, I was the only kid in seventh grade to wear a black armband to school.  On 5/4/80, I was at a Dead show at Baltimore Civic Center.  Today, I was just at work.

I wonder how many under 40 are aware of the police riot in Chicago in 1968, complete with Dan Rather being pummelled by the police thugs on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on National TV?!
36 years since Kent State.  When I look around today I can't help feeling like we should have learned more than we have from those times.  
 
Bill, tgo

I always say this:  People who did not live through the Sixties have NO idea what it was like.
 
Incidentally, I thought today was quattro de mayo!
 
J o e y

Hey Bill the good guitar one!
Thanks for the insight.
I was not clear in my reaction but my brothers and I DID know what the song was all about back in that year.
The rest of my reaction was to illustrate that we ovehee do gather some insight in history on a large basis in school even some things on you brothers on the other side of the pond!
However ...I guess that every man or every country has had his pages of history that they rather kept closed.
 
Paul the bad one

Chicago does know how to throw a party huh Bill ?
And my favorite Dailey quote 'the police are here to preserve disorder'