Challenger...... Re: [at-l] Space shuttle Atlantis

[KarenS62@aol.com (KarenS62@aol.com)]

In a message dated 2/8/2001 6:47:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
vhoyt@mediaone.net writes:


> > ### I saw the Challenger launch on TV in 1986 (January, was it?). I was a
> > proof operator (the financial version of a dishwasher) at a crooked little
> > bank in Bloomington, Indiana, and was uncharacteristically home for lunch.
> 
> Strange to bring up that terrible memory. I had just walked into a diner on
> First Ave. in NewYork City. I glanced up at the TV on the wall just as the
> booster exploded. It took about thirty seconds for the conversation in the
> 

That does bring back haunting memories.  I was standing in the ED waiting 
room about to call a patient's name and saw it on the waiting room TV. I 
stumbled back into the ED and could barely get the words out to tell my 
co-workers.  It's probably the first time I remember the country ever being 
in mourning as a whole country since I was a babe in arms during the early 
60's. 

It wasn't just that generation of kids that had their innocence torn away, 
but many from the generation before it. 

POG
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If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance. 

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