I was at work at the Berbiglia on Belleview.

I was in Hawaii with my wife, turned on the TV and there it was, buzz kill.

I honestly don't remember where I was. Does that make me a bad person?

I remember I was in my bedroom when Elvis died, in study hall in high school when the Challenger blew up, in a condo in Ormond Beach Florida when JFK Fr, died and eating breakfast with my insurance agent in a small diner when 9/11 happened though.

Think it was a Saturday morning. Woke the wife up. Couldn't comprehend what we were witnessing.

Columbia, I was still asleep. Woke up and saw the news just a little while after they had the footage.

Challenger I was in 4th grade on the playground. They cancelled recess and called us all back inside. I remember teachers crying.

I had never seen that video of Columbia before. wow

This one goes farther after the Challenger explosion. Warning... sad stuff.


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Imagine watching your daughter explode right in front of you.

And you know they're gone forever.

I think I read something that they might have survived and didn't die in the explosion and they crashed into ocean. I think I read that.....hmmm

Im sure it has just slipped from memory, but this is the first Ive heard about the Columbia, have no recollection of it at all.

Can't even imagine. Weird watching Krista McCauliffes (sp?) mom and dad on there. They didn't know what was going on or what to even think.

It makes sense. I mean the challenger crew's family's reaction was caught on tape. That's ****ing reality TV there.

That would be ****ing terrible. Did they continue to announce the real time status of shuttle liftoffs on the loudspeaker after that? probably not a good idea.

When the Challenger blew up I was in the Navy in port in San Diego and we all gathered around the Mess Deck watching the news.

When Columbia went down my wife and I were just heading out of the lodge to hop on a ski lift in Mammoth

If you watch the video it seems they did although after the explosion those became few and far between. It seemed everyone including control was trying to figure out wtf.

edit... I see what you were saying now... and I don't know.