[TigersEye]

Thanks for the ping. That is a day I will never forget. Can't believe it has been 29 years. I remember just how we felt standing there on the causeway with 200 or so others in near silence. Like someone had given us a big punch in the gut.

I can't quite believe it has been seven years since I made that post to you. Slow the clock down! lol

[Sirius Lee]

Like someone had given us a big punch in the gut.

Same here. Our school hallway had a big television and we were all gathered around, perhaps even a bit jaded about launches, and then, confusion followed those agonizing shots of wayward trails...

I was sick to my stomach and numb. Twice in my life I felt that way. The other was 9-11.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I can’t believe it has been 7 years either.

It was a sickening feeling. I remember walking through the rest of that day in high school in a complete fog. I think we were numb, especially since our favorite history teacher had been an alternate. That man changed forever that day.

I still have the newspaper (USA Today, I think) that published the Rogers Commission report in full.

Watching Columbia explode over DFW a lifetime later was no different for me. Same feeling.

I’ll catch ya next year for the 30th.