Do you remember where you were?

shygirlmd

shygirlmd

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I was home from school because of teacher workday and watched it on TV. Called my mom and she thought I was lying. My brother was actually there at the launch and took pictures of it exploding.
 
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wineo

loving life
Waitressing at Lenny's, people starting calling on their cells, and quite a few left, guess contractors. Couldn't believe what I had just saw.
 
mAlice

mAlice

professional daydreamer
West Palm Beach, Fl. Was inside watching the news, saw the launch, ran outside to wait for the climb. When it never showed up, went back inside to check the news, and found it had exploded.
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
Spanish class. Teacher was in the library with a bunch of other teachers watching the only TV in the school. She was 15 minutes late to class.
 
belvak

belvak

Happy Camper
Yep, in the medical records department at Southern Maryland Hospital Center (used to work there). WGAY used to be piped in through the speaker system and they interrupted their programming for the special report.
 
Homer J

Homer J

Power Chord
wineo said:
Waitressing at Lenny's, people starting calling on their cells, and quite a few left, guess contractors. Couldn't believe what I had just saw.
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In 1986?

I was in my college apartment between classes watching HBO. A friend called me an told me to turn on the news.
 
Rael

Rael

Supper's Ready
Just landed at an airfield in England, went in to check the weather for our final flight of the day. At first we couldn't find the weather guy, but then found he was fixed on the TV screen.
 
BeenSpur'd

BeenSpur'd

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In my kitchen making a Boston cream Pie. I'll never forget the look on the face of the teachers parents who were there watching the launch, especially the mom.
 
camily

camily

Peace
I was in 7th grade at Southern Maryland Christian Academy. A boy in class said "What if it exploded." Then it did. He felt awful. That was weird.
 
Pushrod

Pushrod

Patriot
Coast Guard Station Charleston, SC, in the break room watching the launch. Later that week I would be helping in recovery of the wreckage.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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I was over at my friend's house watching on TV. I remember the shock of the shuttle just all of a sudden breaking up. It was like watching a movie. My son was 2 1/2 at the time and he spread his hands out and said, "That rocket went pkhyooo!" with an exploding sound.

Very sad.
 
cattitude

cattitude

My Sweetest Boy
I was working in the Director's office of the Goddard Space Flight Center. I had met the crew several times. It was awful...the Director knew what had happened before any us (who had gathered in his office to watch the launch)..he collapsed to his knees and wept.
 
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toppick08

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I was a senior at Pearl High School, in Pearl, Ms......watching the TV in the library.
 
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JMA50192

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I was in Florida. I was only 5 years old but I remember that we were packing up my grandmothers house because she had passed away. I said "those are funny looking clouds Daddy". I went inside to get my Mom, she was packing up dishes. She turned the TV on and it was on the news.
 
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red_explorer

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cwo_ghwebb said:
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Seoul, ROK watching through the glass patio door letting the dog out.
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I was in the lunch room at Immaculata High School in Rockville, and they were talking about it. I had a really hard time, because I had had a dream the the shuttle was going to explode the night before, and had not even known it was supposed to be in Space. I was pretty messed up for awhile, thinking I should have called someone.
 
Severa

Severa

Common sense ain't common
I was 9 yrs old, at home that day with some flu-like crud. To this day I can't watch a shuttle launch (or landing, because of Columbia) without being a nervous f**king wreck.
 
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