MCMickRat (August 2, 2008 at 12:03 am)

Democracy is not a spectator sport. Thanks to youtube for giving a voice to the people.

smoke117 (July 24, 2008 at 2:37 am)

Fantastic version, a worthy compainion to the original. This one is sorrowful and heart breaking especially as he sings the "what if you knew her and saw her dead on the ground" verse. The original with CSN is full of anger and outrage with the swirling electric guitars leading the way.

beggarsgame (July 10, 2008 at 2:23 am)

Noone but Neil can make a song like this happen. What would we do without the soundtracks of our lives? Thanks for posting!

brokeassjokers (July 9, 2008 at 12:21 am)

i wish we could but ya can't leave politics out of music. this song reminds us all about how crazy the world can get when our leaders forget they need to lead not make us follow.

androidstar (July 8, 2008 at 7:05 pm)

Ooops, typo! I meant "worse than Nixon" {Which Bush certainly is!}

androidstar (July 8, 2008 at 7:00 pm)

I remember the Kent State Massacre well! It was America's Tianamin Square, and it happened under the criminal President Nixon. Now we have another criminal Republican President worse that Nixon! What's with Republicans anyway? Also the fundamentalists who support them? Is saving unborn fetuses, important enough to justify supporting administrations who destroy the living? Is that what they think Jesus wants? My God such hypocrisy! Let's never forget the bravery of 4 dead and 9 wounded students!

rjlewis52 (June 7, 2008 at 2:58 am)

great song. what an atrocity it was when national guardsmen actually turned their guns on America's own people, who were protesting a war that killed thousands upon thousands for no apparent reason. there was a triple vietnam amputee in my ap us history class the other day -- powerful stuff.

maria52968 (April 19, 2008 at 7:42 am)

read "the guns of august" about ww1, kids had the same view then. we have more in common with that generation in a way than the ones of ww2, korea or vietnam. my youngest whose eleven wants to be a soldier. I, an immigrant believe it's a great thing to support youre country, this country, by joining the military, but our politicians just use them as talking points.

crazeeLonna (April 19, 2008 at 3:26 am)

Oh Wow. This brings everything to light. My sister's boyfriend going to 'Nam for no reason. This affected everyone tremendously in 1968. It still haunts many today and should never disappear from memory.

dinnerbucket9 (April 12, 2008 at 7:17 am)

This resonates decades later....and makes clear the value of resistance. Nixons thugs and W.s thugs are cut from the same cloth....and are still among us.