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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[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I was watching. So were my small children. Explaining it to them was incredibly difficult.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

My parents used let me stay home from school on shuttle launch days because the only TV in my school was a small one with poor reception.

I'd had a screaming nightmare the night before about the WCVB logo interrupting the shuttle launch, so my parents were less surprised than I would have expected.

I don't remember staying home on shuttle launch days after that.