So did we, in the school library. I was in 5th grade.Watched it live on TV.
Senior year.^ this.
Watch it, whipper snapper! My children are younger than you
Great Lakes Naval Training Command.
Electronics Tech "A" school Barracks.
3rd Platoon.
Myself and another E-3 (Seaman) were having a competition trying to see who could ride a floor buffer the longest.
Another E-3 (a joker) and said "The Space Shuttle just blew up."
I turned to him and said, "That's the worst F'n joke I've ever heard. Get the F out of here."
"No really. It really blew up.", he replied.
(yes, I remember that exchange pretty well).
So we followed him to his room where the closest TV was. And there it was on replay. The explosion. The bios of the crew. The families.
I would like to point out 7 days earlier, an airplane out of Lockerbie Scotland blew up and didn't get as good coverage.
I figure, probably because the Challenger blew up in front of a national audience. Those that didn't see it happen, saw it happen on replay very soon thereafter.
Airplane explosions are rarely on camera.
3rd grade, in the library, watching it blow up.
If you are referring to Pan Am Flight 103 that was in Dec. of 1988. That is the only Lockerbie plane crash I know of. -Jason
Dang.
I stand corrected.
I'm old.
I remember where I was.
I messed up on the Scotland bombing.
Not sure why I pictured you as older....
I wasn't trying to be jerk, I just wondered if their was another one over Scotland. I just remember the month and year of PA103 I was a senior in HS. ANYTHING that happened in the first quarter of '86 was shadowed by the Challenger. -Jaason