Plattsburgh Miracle Poem by Saiom Shriver

Plattsburgh Miracle



1970, the Fifth of May
One day after
the Kent State Four.
The Plattsburgh students
decide to act
from their very heartcores.
They say that in league
with those at Kent State
They will march to
the SAC Air Force Gate..
The SAC commander now decrees
that any who touch the Air Force gate
will be shot summarily.

The students say they
want peace evermore
that they want violence
gone from our shores.

And as the students file by
what a miracle is in store!

Out of base homes come
the Air Force wives.
Holding their babes
they offer their lives

and stand between
the young and the armed
and by their courage
is peace reborn.

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May 4,1970 Hundreds of students are protesting the war in Vietnam
at Kent State University when the Ohio National Guard shoot 4 of
them dead.
The story of Plattsburgh was told by Dr Bob Lance, then on the faculty
there.

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