[DCPatriot]

I realize the difference between the two events (Columbia Shuttle/World Trade Center)

But a previous poster pointed out that 4 servicemen died in a crash of a Black-Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan with nary a yawn by the media. They too, died doing their job. (it's a VOLUNTEER military)

The Space Program MUST go on. The "ultimate weapon" in this millenium will be one fired from orbit. I want to give us every advantage so that the insignia on the weapons platform in orbit around the earth will be "USA" instead of a Red Star.

If I have to defend that position, then the world has gone truly "NUTS". Afterall, last I heard, Libya was the head of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations (yuk-yuk)

[Kip Lange]

While we're at it, let's make sure there's a US flag stuck somewhere on Mars.

RE: Blackhawk Crash -- people die in the military every day. Policemen die every day. Firefighters die every day. Brave people die every second. I've always found this sort of hand-wringing over "tragedies" overdone. We have the vigils for Columbine; nobody bothers to report that the schools are the safest they've been in years. Lather, rinse, repeat, get ready for your next candlelight vigil.