24 years ago...

[johno]

I was walking down a hallway at NORAD, when the boards lit up. Without the *exercise* light on.

I raced to the nearest office, to find everyone clustered around the TV watching as CNN ran the explosion over and over and over...

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[sibylle]

I was visiting my family in the country and with time difference and them being farmers and all, no one watched it live - I don't know if it was on the news that night (I was 7 at the time, so either not allowed to watch the news yet, or not watching anyway), but I remember reading the following headline on the rather sensationalist newspaper my uncle prefers: "'Ah oh uh' - they knew they were dying" along with a photo of the exploding shuttle. This is the first newspaper headline I remember reading.