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- From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
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- Subject: Re: An early toast
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:26:12 GMT
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- Amanda (with ekho) writes :
- > "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."
-
- I first heard it during school, as well. Evidently, there were some TVs
- tuned to the launch, but no one I know saw the actual liftoff. In the middle
- of class, a voice came over the loudspeaker and announced the tragedy. I
- honestly had no idea how to react. We had been going so long, with a success
- rate so high, that I shudder to think what Mr. Probability had to say when
- he glanced in its direction. We had no idea that something like this could
- happen again, not since the Grissom-White-Chaffee mission.
-
- To this day, I STILL don't know what to feel, other than loss.
-
- (the bulb sets his empty bottle down in the fireplace.)
-
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