revisit the Kent State shootings/ 2014

revisit the Kent State shootings/ 2014


fiction
edward w pritchard


Downtown Kent looks unusually prosperous these days with the new economic development plans completed. Upscale restaurants, hotels and a University centered convention center. Happy couples of hand holding students stroll about the restaurant district planning long successful lives following their graduation from college. Life has moved on at Kent State forty four years after the May 1970's shootings and those of us who remember the shootings are older but wiser concerning soldiers with loaded weapons.

Where rest the spirits of the four Kent State students shot down by some of the Ohio National guardsmen on May 04, 1970?

Where rest now the souls of Jeffrey Miller 20, Allison Krause 19, Michael Schroder 19 , and Sandra Scheuer 20?

Pray for the four lost students at Kent State in May 1970 and pray for the majority of guardsmen who in conscious fired into the air or the ground. Remember May 1970 when America shot it's own children.


when soldiers come

fiction
edward w pritchard

sky so low
spirits so high
then soldiers come
men bleed, women cry
children hide
soldiers stay
men cry, women bleed
children stare
soldiers here
sky high, wind fierce, spirits low