I was a freshman in High School... I didn't even know the shuttle was due to launch that morning... all I knew was that my tiny little Christian school suddenly had a satellite dish in the yard, that was easily as big as any of the buses. (It was planned that we would be one of the schools that Christa taught...) We went to "Big Chapel" that morning. (The entire school, all 250-odd of us, K-12, gathered once a week that way, to be preached at...) And after sitting there for a long time, Mr. DeJong, the head Coach, came out to the mike and very quietly told us. I never saw that man cry, before or after that- but his voice was cracking as he said it. Yeah, it didn't sink in with me until that night when I got home, and saw the news... It wasn't real to me, even with the pictures of the smoke trails.
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Date: 2010-01-29 01:03 am (UTC)I didn't even know the shuttle was due to launch that morning... all I knew was that my tiny little Christian school suddenly had a satellite dish in the yard, that was easily as big as any of the buses. (It was planned that we would be one of the schools that Christa taught...)
We went to "Big Chapel" that morning. (The entire school, all 250-odd of us, K-12, gathered once a week that way, to be preached at...) And after sitting there for a long time, Mr. DeJong, the head Coach, came out to the mike and very quietly told us. I never saw that man cry, before or after that- but his voice was cracking as he said it.
Yeah, it didn't sink in with me until that night when I got home, and saw the news... It wasn't real to me, even with the pictures of the smoke trails.