Both Challenger and 9/11 I heard about on the radio at a time when normally I would have been listening to a tape-- just happened to turn it on instead. At first I thought 9/11 was a joke or a hoax, because how could the World Trade Center towers have collapsed...?
A few days after Obama was elected, I was going up to Boston on the train and chatted with the guy next to me. We talked about the election night, how it was something that people would always remember. I said I'd been on the train going past NYC a few days after 9/11 too, and the ruins were still smoking. Challenger was another "where were you" moment, and then I mentioned Apollo 11. "Uh... when was that?" July 1969, I told him. "I was born in 1972." Thanks....
Challenger reminds me of Columbia, and the only good story I ever heard about George Bush: that when he was told about the shuttle having broken up on re-entry, his first reaction was, "Where are the families?"
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A few days after Obama was elected, I was going up to Boston on the train and chatted with the guy next to me. We talked about the election night, how it was something that people would always remember. I said I'd been on the train going past NYC a few days after 9/11 too, and the ruins were still smoking. Challenger was another "where were you" moment, and then I mentioned Apollo 11. "Uh... when was that?" July 1969, I told him. "I was born in 1972." Thanks....
Challenger reminds me of Columbia, and the only good story I ever heard about George Bush: that when he was told about the shuttle having broken up on re-entry, his first reaction was, "Where are the families?"