I Protest #284 By Hank Silverberg "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear a drumming Four dead in Ohio" Neil Young's lyric about the shooting of four students at Kent State by the National Guard during a protest on May 4, 1970 provided a greater intensity to the anti-war protests of the late sixties and early seventies. The incident itself was probably a turning point for the majority of citizens who were against the war but not openly protesting it. The deadly protests after Kent State widened opposition to the war, made it cross-generational, and eventually effective enough to convince the Nixon Administration to get out of Vietnam as quickly as possible (it took too long). This week on the 54th anniversary of Kent State, I heard a lot of talk comparing the current round...