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- From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: An early toast
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.043515.14771@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:35:15 GMT
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- In article <1jvdioINNr25@digex.digex.com> snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis) writes:
- >
- >The Urban Spaceman toasts:
- >> "Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee,
- >> Smith. Gone, but not forgotten."
- >
- >Dreamweaver remembers the day he heard the news and disbelieved, and
- >finishes the last of his Killian's Red and throws the bottle into the
- >fireplace.
-
- amanda, wandering in late to the conversation and *just* in time to
- commemorate the loss, remembers it:
-
- "I was only in eighth grade... there were TVs set up in the library, of
- course, showing the launch. I remember feeling somewhat solemn and
- overwhelmed (well, that's how i feel now, anyway) and knowing that i wasn't
- completely appreciating the tragedy. It was hard to know how to feel."
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