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Remembering the Challenger - 19 Years
Posted on 01/28/2005 5:17:59 PM PST by silverleaf
Edited on 01/28/2005 7:01:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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Do you remember where you were, 19 years ago today? "Challenger, go with throttle up.." http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1986/challenger/challenger.lg.mov
To: silverleaf
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:18:17 PM PST
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: silverleaf
Of course I remember... and to this day I find it difficult to watch it.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:20:19 PM PST
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: silverleaf
Yes I do remember. I was watching it on television. An acquaintance of mine, Barbara Morgan, was the runner up for the teacher in space program, and was working at the space center at the time of the explosion.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:20:48 PM PST
by
.38sw
To: silverleaf
I used to work a night shift, and would get to bed around 4:00 a.m., then wake up somewhere between 11:00 a.m. and noon. On the morning of the Challenger disaster I had a horrible dream about airplanes crashing. I woke up immediately afterward, then turned on the television just in time to see the tail end of what had happened.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:21:22 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: silverleaf
Actually, I do. I was working as a chef in a restaurant in Santa Rosa, CA, and the busboy came into the kitchen and said, "hey, did you hear, the Challenger blew up." We all thought he was trying to pull off a really, really bad joke, and he got extremely angry and told us to turn on the radio.
I went into the walk-in (a large cooler, which is the only place you can have privacy in a restaurant) and burst into tears. I was a kid when JFK was killed, and this was almost as bad.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:21:43 PM PST
by
livius
To: silverleaf
I was at the copy maching working for General Foods in White Plains. I can't remember what I did yesterday but I remember that!
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:22:00 PM PST
by
angcat
To: silverleaf
I was in San Jose Airport in a departure lounge. I worked on that project -- held off the tears until I got home.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:22:57 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(† trad-anglican.faithweb.com † || Iran Azadi || Kiev County: http://www.soundpolitics.com)
To: silverleaf
I remember...I watched it on tv as it happened, Jarvis was from my home town, Mohawk, NY and went to the same high school that I graduated from. They later re-named the school after him...
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:23:35 PM PST
by
Gewittermädchen
(The best minds are not in government...Ronald Reagan)
To: silverleaf
19 years!? Time flies.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:24:20 PM PST
by
silent_jonny
(The Nightime Sniffling Sneezing Coughing Aching Stuffyhead Fever So You Can Freep Medicine)
To: silverleaf
I was in school. Fifth grade, in Valley Springs, SD. They made an announcement that we should turn on the TV, so my teacher did, and we watched the coverage the rest of the day.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:27:10 PM PST
by
xjcsa
(Everything matters if anything matters at all...)
To: silverleaf
I was 23, recently graduated from college, and jobhunting. I was still in my bathrobe at 11 am and my mom called to tell me what had happened. I turned on the TV and saw the endless coverage.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:27:24 PM PST
by
rabidralph
(Congratulations, Pres. Bush and VP Cheney!)
To: silverleaf
I remember. I was watching in stunned disbelief. The phone rang three times in quick succession. Three friends who had been teachers were calling.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:27:42 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: silverleaf
Saw it live. What a stunning, sad experience...
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:30:48 PM PST
by
Time is now
(We'll live to see it......Does anyone see it yet?....)
To: silverleaf
I was in a class in college. A student who knew the professor well stuck his head into the room and asked the prof, "Did you hear the space shuttle blew up?" The prof was a little annoyed and said "and..." waiting for the punchline to a bad joke. The student said, "No, it blew up on launch." Class ended early so we could go to the lounge to watch it.
That was half a lifetime ago for me.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:31:10 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
To: silverleaf
Do you remember where you were, 19 years ago today? "Challenger, go with throttle up.."
At that time my Mother was very ill, I was working the night shift and trying to care for her at the same time.
She loved the "Price Is Right" program but wasnt able to program the VCR so I always set it up for her.
She woke me up that morning and said something about an explosion on the space shuttle.
Still have the tape from that day and watched it again earlier this morning.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:33:15 PM PST
by
76834
To: silverleaf
It distinctly changed my life, that's for sure. I had just reported aboard the USS Hoist (Rescue Salage ship) fresh outta navy bootcamp and engineman a-school. Wasn't there a week when we were sent to relieve one of the initial response salvage boat that had already been salvaging the wreckage for a month. By the time we arrived on station the divers were bringing up the rest of the pieces in milk crates. Seeing the dive operations going on inspired me to go to dive school to do the same. Now I'm an Master scuba instructor.
To: silverleaf
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:36:43 PM PST
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: KarlInOhio
I was working for a bank outside of Chicago back in 1986. We all gathered around the radio listening in disbelief. I was still riding a high because the Chicago Bears had just won the Super bowl a few days before. Talk about highs and lows. My how time flies.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:37:04 PM PST
by
sjm_888
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