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73. Yes - we actually watched it in school.
They wheeled in a TV to the classrom so we could watch the launch. After the explosion, the teacher just turned off the TV and there was no discussion about what happened. We just did something else. :shrug:
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  -Do you have a memory of the Challenger explosion? bertha katzenengel  Jul-30-06 07:20 PM   #0 
  - I do  lizziegrace   Jul-30-06 07:22 PM   #1 
  - Like it was yesterday. I was getting ready for class, and had  SeattleGirl   Jul-30-06 07:23 PM   #2 
  - god . . . I'm old enough to remember men walking on the moon, and RFK's  bertha katzenengel   Jul-30-06 07:32 PM   #3 
  - Bertha, I vaguely recall FDR's death -- I must have been about six.  Radio_Lady   Jul-31-06 04:19 PM   #86 
  - Thank you for these remembrances, Radio Lady.  bertha katzenengel   Jul-31-06 06:31 PM   #91 
     - You're welcome. I wear my age well, I think. Who's that in the mirror?  Radio_Lady   Jul-31-06 11:26 PM   #97 
        - He'll be 67 next month.  bertha katzenengel   Aug-01-06 08:20 AM   #100 
           - My stepdaughters lost their mother when she was 34. She died  Radio_Lady   Aug-01-06 12:49 PM   #107 
              - Radio Lady, I certainly didn't mean to be insensitive.  bertha katzenengel   Aug-02-06 09:04 AM   #111 
  - 1986.....lessee, I was 27 at the time  av8rdave   Aug-01-06 09:13 AM   #101 
  - yes. We were home that day from school  idgiehkt   Jul-30-06 07:34 PM   #4 
  - I remember it all too well.  countingbluecars   Jul-30-06 07:43 PM   #5 
  - My class was watching is as well.  Jamastiene   Jul-31-06 11:38 PM   #98 
  - I have memory of John Glenn walking across the tarmac...  benburch   Jul-30-06 07:50 PM   #6 
  - I was in first grade, at home with my grandmother due to chicken pox.  StellaBlue   Jul-30-06 07:55 PM   #7 
  - By order of Congress, my answer is now legally "no"  Rabrrrrrr   Jul-30-06 07:58 PM   #8 
  - My parents recorded it on our then-new VCR.  democracyindanger   Jul-30-06 08:00 PM   #9 
  - My dear bertha......  CaliforniaPeggy   Jul-30-06 08:01 PM   #10 
  - Sitting in high school cafe  YankeyMCC   Jul-30-06 08:02 PM   #11 
  - Why, of course I remember  billyskank   Jul-30-06 08:02 PM   #12 
  - You and I must be around the same age.  xmas74   Jul-31-06 11:10 AM   #69 
  - Yes, and I remember exactly what I was doing.  calico1   Jul-30-06 08:03 PM   #13 
  - Ellison Onizuka ...  Kickin_Donkey   Jul-30-06 08:12 PM   #14 
  - My mom was in Florida watching it from her brothers house.  seemunkee   Jul-30-06 08:13 PM   #15 
  - Yup...drying my hair in my dorm room  dolo amber   Jul-30-06 08:16 PM   #16 
  - Was off work - watching tv  salin   Jul-30-06 08:18 PM   #17 
  - Happened on the day of the 8th grade science fair  alcibiades_mystery   Jul-30-06 08:19 PM   #18 
  - Yes!!! I was 16 in 1986 and attended school (Clear Lake High School  Lady Effingbroke   Jul-30-06 08:39 PM   #19 
  - I remember that day  Xipe Totec   Jul-31-06 05:18 PM   #90 
  - I stayed home from school "sick" that day  Finnfan   Jul-30-06 09:01 PM   #20 
  - I was 10. My dad had clearance and we were out of school that week...  politicat   Jul-30-06 09:01 PM   #21 
  - yep...  petersond   Jul-30-06 09:02 PM   #22 
  - I was on my way home from class  WolverineDG   Jul-30-06 09:05 PM   #23 
  - Yes..  sendero   Jul-30-06 09:15 PM   #24 
  - Hell yes. January of my senior year of high school.  GOPisEvil   Jul-30-06 09:16 PM   #25 
  - I was in nursing school-learning how to insert a catheter  w8liftinglady   Jul-30-06 09:16 PM   #26 
  - Oh yes. And it was January 28, not 25th  Xithras   Jul-30-06 09:20 PM   #27 
  - Yes...  Okiojira   Jul-30-06 09:39 PM   #28 
  - Yes. I was at school, and we were watching the launch on teevee  mutley_r_us   Jul-30-06 09:43 PM   #29 
  - Yes. In the Coast Guard and had just  WannaJumpMyScooter   Jul-30-06 09:45 PM   #30 
  - yes, watched it live in the fifth grade  northzax   Jul-30-06 09:45 PM   #31 
  - Yes ... a bit of trivia ...  RoyGBiv   Jul-30-06 09:50 PM   #32 
  - I saw it live and I don't think I'm 'mis-remembering'  astral   Jul-30-06 10:04 PM   #37 
  - Depends ...  RoyGBiv   Jul-30-06 10:21 PM   #41 
  - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Jul-31-06 02:49 AM   #57 
  - I saw it live as an adult. No doubt about it.  Lars39   Jul-31-06 11:33 AM   #76 
  - I was in Korea at the time  MrScorpio   Jul-30-06 09:53 PM   #33 
  - Sure. I was a senior in high school.  Aristus   Jul-30-06 09:53 PM   #34 
  - I was a schoolteacher in a small town in Nebraska - the students had jokes  spacelady   Jul-30-06 09:54 PM   #35 
  - Fuck no, that's fucking stupid. Fuck Challenger!  Placebo   Jul-30-06 10:00 PM   #36 
  - I was a senior in HS  Maestro   Jul-30-06 10:13 PM   #38 
  - My alarm went off.  Floogeldy   Jul-30-06 10:19 PM   #39 
  - Indeed I do.  Redstone   Jul-30-06 10:20 PM   #40 
  - I was home sick from work, watching TV with the sound off and listening to  grannylib   Jul-30-06 10:23 PM   #42 
  - Yes, I saw it happen from my back yard.  tinfoilinfor2005   Jul-30-06 10:32 PM   #43 
  - I'm so old, I remember splashdown.  Ptah   Jul-30-06 10:33 PM   #44 
  - Not really  Oeditpus Rex   Jul-30-06 10:33 PM   #45 
  - Was 8 months pregnant  OzarkDem   Jul-30-06 10:43 PM   #46 
  - I live just up the coast from Cape Canveral (by road 120 miles, less  1monster   Jul-30-06 10:46 PM   #47 
  - There's a vivid image.  swag   Jul-31-06 01:25 AM   #53 
  - Saw it from about a hundred miles away.  lpbk2713   Jul-30-06 11:35 PM   #48 
  - Nursing my daughter, in the rocking chair when the news hit  yellowdogintexas   Jul-30-06 11:39 PM   #49 
  - "Obviously a major malfunction"  Hardhead   Jul-30-06 11:44 PM   #50 
  - Eating lunch aboard the ship where I was stationed.  bumblebee1   Jul-31-06 01:15 AM   #51 
  - I was deployed on the USS Coral Sea when it happened.  jonnyblitz   Jul-31-06 08:00 AM   #63 
     - Mine was Charleston harbor.  bumblebee1   Jul-31-06 12:35 PM   #77 
  - Yes. Was working the phones at Metro Messenger in DC and  swag   Jul-31-06 01:19 AM   #52 
  - Yes, i was on the dirt road just north of the farm we lived on  auntAgonist   Jul-31-06 01:25 AM   #54 
  - the crew photo and names of the crew are in my post above n/t  auntAgonist   Jul-31-06 11:28 AM   #74 
  - I live across the river from the Cape.  madeline_con   Jul-31-06 02:24 AM   #55 
  - Challenger blow up was caused by a malfunctioning O -ring which  1monster   Jul-31-06 11:20 AM   #72 
  - Just a minor correction. It occurred on January 28th, not 25th....  Robeson   Jul-31-06 02:30 AM   #56 
  - thanks for the date correction  bertha katzenengel   Jul-31-06 06:32 PM   #92 
  - Didn't exist.  deadparrot   Jul-31-06 03:48 AM   #58 
  - Yes  Nicole   Jul-31-06 04:09 AM   #59 
  - I remember it  Popol Vuh   Jul-31-06 04:12 AM   #60 
  - watched it with my own eyes from a 4th grade playground.  SlavesandBulldozers   Jul-31-06 07:59 AM   #61 
  - I was only three at the time.  Fox Mulder   Jul-31-06 08:00 AM   #62 
  - I was watching it while folding laundry  Katina   Jul-31-06 08:04 AM   #64 
  - Snow day from school  bigwillq   Jul-31-06 08:23 AM   #65 
  - My ninth grade class was watching it live.  myrna minx   Jul-31-06 08:29 AM   #66 
  - I watched it explode from my then back yard about 70 miles away.  peekaloo   Jul-31-06 08:34 AM   #67 
  - I remember my mom telling my brother and me that we were not to joke..  JVS   Jul-31-06 09:50 AM   #68 
  - 3rd grade, in class  bicentennial_baby   Jul-31-06 11:11 AM   #70 
  - Yup. I was actually a finalist to be the teacher that went up with that  Midlodemocrat   Jul-31-06 11:13 AM   #71 
  - I'm thankful, as I'm sure you and your family are...  auntAgonist   Jul-31-06 11:29 AM   #75 
  - Yes - we actually watched it in school.  janesez   Jul-31-06 11:22 AM   #73 
  - Kinda -- I was 9 years old...  SteppingRazor   Jul-31-06 12:38 PM   #78 
  - I do...  nickinSTL   Jul-31-06 12:57 PM   #79 
  - Here's a "cute" story about it..  Catshrink   Jul-31-06 01:01 PM   #80 
  - I was at work. One of our biggest cut-ups....said: "Did you hear  wildhorses   Jul-31-06 03:04 PM   #81 
  - I was at my job when it happened  MikeH   Jul-31-06 03:22 PM   #82 
  - I remember it well, I was 21 and working evenings  TommyO   Jul-31-06 04:01 PM   #83 
  - Junior year of HS, screwing around in Drama class.  Dora   Jul-31-06 04:05 PM   #84 
  - I was visiting beauty salons with my Clairol manager, Ray G. It was  Radio_Lady   Jul-31-06 04:10 PM   #85 
  - Manager's name comes up as deceased in 1997. Too bad.  Radio_Lady   Jul-31-06 05:08 PM   #89 
  - yes  redqueen   Jul-31-06 04:21 PM   #87 
  - It was a snow day at my high school  alarimer   Jul-31-06 04:35 PM   #88 
  - Not only that, I remember Apollo 1  MrBenchley   Jul-31-06 09:00 PM   #93 
  - I was teaching Japanese at a state university on the West Coast  Lydia Leftcoast   Jul-31-06 09:21 PM   #94 
  - Yep...I was on the air doing radio news at the time.  bluethruandthru   Jul-31-06 09:24 PM   #95 
  - My children  laylah   Jul-31-06 09:28 PM   #96 
  - Yes  BuffyTheFundieSlayer   Aug-01-06 02:11 AM   #99 
  - The other three: Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka and Gregory Jarvis  DinahMoeHum   Aug-01-06 09:19 AM   #102 
  - I remember it being on TV in the junior high lunch room  Strawman   Aug-01-06 09:34 AM   #103 
  - At work - Coworkers couldn't decide if Arabs did it or the Soviets  slackmaster   Aug-01-06 09:59 AM   #104 
  - This was the doomed flight that had faulty O-rings, right?  Radio_Lady   Aug-01-06 01:14 PM   #108 
     - Yes, it turned out to be O-rings that got brittle when cold  slackmaster   Aug-01-06 02:43 PM   #109 
  - I was at work  LibertyLover   Aug-01-06 10:05 AM   #105 
  - Yep, skipping school w/friend and saw it go up and then...  Vividqueen   Aug-01-06 12:31 PM   #106 
  - Yes, I do  mvd   Aug-01-06 02:47 PM   #110 
  - I was sitting in my M.I.S. class.  AirmensMom   Aug-02-06 09:07 AM   #112 
  - Hell, I remember the Apollo 1 fire  liberalpress   Aug-02-06 09:08 AM   #113 
 

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