Do you remember where you were the day of the Challenger disaster?

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I was in high school, went into Psychology class, and the t.v. was on, which was odd.


We sat and watched the whole class.



It sucked. What I remember most is the teachers dad looking up, and then looking down, knowing it blew up.


They kept showing that over and over.


Then they had a short time where they said they might still be alive if the cockpit ejected from the craft and fell to the ocean, but I everyone with a brain knew they were dead.


It was a cold day in Florida, very cold, that's what froze the o-ring.

I had U.S. Government for first period. It happened then, and we got word. I went to my next class, band, and we all sat there and watched the news coverage on the TV.

I was in my child development class, sitting on the counter, and we were all watching the tv in class.

I was in grade 5, I believe... Or 4... I just remember going home and watching it on the evening news. I was shocked that explosions could really be that intense. I thought it was only possible in movie magic back then. Freaked me out. Probably the first news issue that really grabbed and held my attention, so much so that I fully recall what position I was in while watching the footage for the first time...

No, I don't remember where I was at all.

It must have been during the 1980's.

All I know is...I think Jean Michel Jarre wrote a song about one of the astronauts on his Rendezvous album.
That is how I tell time, especially during the 1980's...

I looked it up on the NASA site...January 1986.....
Crap, I have no idea whether I was even in the country at that time let alone what I was doing that day.

And yes Jarre dedicated track 11 of Rendez-vous to the Challenger shuttle...in fact he was devastated by this tragedy because:

It was a very sad concert.

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For me it was one of these two scenarios. I can't remember which. Since they are mutually exclusive, one of them must be incorrect.

(A) I was at my geriatics club meeting, where we were discussing the best ways to navigate in our wheelchairs and soak our dentures overnight.

(B) I was in my office, about to make a phone call to a client, when a neighbor in the insurance business, who had an office two suites down, ran in and told me to put my TV set on right away and watch the news.

I guess I was there....but it's one of those things I cannot remember. Je ne me souviens pas.

Heavens11.....did I meet you that day?
Probably I went unnoticed by you in that particular "incarnation."

I was in the 3rd or 4th grade, at the Boys Club after school playing Pitfall on the Commodore 64. I was big time into space shuttles and all that. I had a toy Enterprise I got for Christmas a while back. It just really blew my mind. Seeing that thing explode and all those kids watching horrified as their teacher died. Bad news.

-HECK!