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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-28 04:13:07 +0000

"It was twenty years ago today...

... NASA jokes we began to say."

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I remember where I was, when I found out. How about those Concord, NH kids?

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-L#Investigation">Feynman? Who knew?</a>
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-01-28 05:44:43 +0000
I was sick at home (in Wilmington, MA- this is pre-Concord by a year and a half) watching 'Cloak And Dagger' on Showtime when my dad called to tell me the news. The next day, I wrote a class-assigned poem about it which still hangs on my folks' fridge.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-28 05:59:04 +0000
Still on the fridge? 20 years = big time.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2006-01-28 14:22:33 +0000
I know someone who was one of her students. He's still freaked out about it.
Posted by Miriam on 2006-01-29 18:05:49 +0000
We were watching on TV in my elementary school classroom. I think it was 5th grade. Brutal.
Posted by tgl on 2006-01-30 14:11:00 +0000
All the TV monitors were on at Broken Ground School in Concord, NH. We got sent home early.

Feynman? I knew.

Decent article in Sunday's Glob. (Can't find the link, sorry.)
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-01-30 14:23:30 +0000
Lots of Concord kids crying on national tv and in newsweek, etc. tgl, were you one of 'em?
Posted by tgl on 2006-01-30 14:27:45 +0000
I was stoic.
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-01-30 14:55:40 +0000
Whaddaya mean 'was'?
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