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I remember where I was when this happened. I wanted to watch, but I was not allowed since it was during our morning recess break. I was so excited because there was going to be a teacher in space!
So after the break, I was first in, and I asked Mr. Rader, my 5th grade teacher, "Did the shuttle get up okay?"
He replied, "It blew up."
I couldn't believe that he'd joke about that! I just looked at him and said, "That's not funny."
He said, "No, it's not."
We did get to watch the news about it, though. It was like a dream had died.
I still cry when I think about it, like right now.
some of us are looking at the stars
On January 28, 1986, I was home from school with the flu. I remember that, no matter what I did, I couldn't get warm, so I was sitting in a hot bath when my mom knocked on the bathroom door. "There was an accident with the space shuttle," she said, in the same voice she used when she told me th...
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