Challenger, 30 years later

[marylander1940]

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/30-years-later-challenger-widow-tells-her-story-140818583.html

[+ honcho]

I can't "like" that, and I didn't want to see video of 7 people dying, but I did follow the link to hear

what June Scooby Rogers had to say and was glad I did. When I was growing up, the Rabbi

of the congregation I attended said "People live on in the memory of their friends", and it seems

good to witness that.

[tyro]

My God. Thirty years. I still remember where I was and who told me.

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[Kuriousity]

I was in 7th grade. I remember it was some time in the afternoon when our teacher told us.

[stop]

this was the first real event of my life that effected me. I remember Regan getting shot but I didn't really comprehend what it meant at the time. I was in college when this happened and I remember spending the entire day in the coming room with everybody else just watching the coverage over and over....I don't think I felt that way again until 9/11

[mike carey]

My God. Thirty years. I still remember where I was and who told me.

I was in the Air Force at the time and I had just left one of our F-111 squadrons. I woke (morning of the 29th in Australia) to the news that Challenger had crashed, but also that an F-111 had crashed off the NSW coast with the loss of the two crew. I was stunned by both, but the (understandable) fact that the Challenger news had swamped any detail of the F-111 crash was frustrating.