Terry Scott still feels pain from Kent State tragedy

Terry Scott still feels pain from Kent State tragedy

No matter where Benicia Vice Mayor Terry Scott goes, he can’t escape his youth. He’ll be in a grocery store, elevator or his car and he’ll hear a somber riff in the key of D minor repeated four times, followed by a first verse that instantly takes him back 2,400 miles east and 55 years of age. “Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio.” While some celebrate May 4 for other reason…

Derf Backderf’s KENT STATE: Essential Reading on a Shameful American Tragedy

The slaughter on campus was 55 years ago… By PETER BOSCH It was 55 years ago, May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University who were protesting the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon’s expansion of it into Cambodia, and the Guard’s presence on their campus. At the end of those 13 seconds of fire by more than two dozen soldiers, three unarmed students — Jeffrey Miller, age 20; Allison Krause, age 19;…