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Snakeadelic · 06-30-2016, 08:03 AM

File Mr. Ebeling under how the hell did I miss this one???

I'm sure many of the American members are, like me, able to remember not just HEARING about the Challenger explosion.

I lived in a small Oregon coast town, and even we got live-feed access on enough TVs for 3 or 4 classrooms to gather up in front of each one. I remember the teachers' silent tears, and the kids suddenly so quiet that their silence became heavy and frightened. Grades 4, 5 and 6, 60-70 kids per monitor, and that total, shocked silence.

For comparison, the very first major news story I actually remember watching on TV at home was the fall of Skylab in 1979.

06-30-2016, 08:03 AM	#952
Snakeadelic Banned Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 660	File Mr. Ebeling under how the hell did I miss this one??? I'm sure many of the American members are, like me, able to remember not just HEARING about the Challenger explosion. I lived in a small Oregon coast town, and even we got live-feed access on enough TVs for 3 or 4 classrooms to gather up in front of each one. I remember the teachers' silent tears, and the kids suddenly so quiet that their silence became heavy and frightened. Grades 4, 5 and 6, 60-70 kids per monitor, and that total, shocked silence. For comparison, the very first major news story I actually remember watching on TV at home was the fall of Skylab in 1979.