The thing I remember from that day is after the announcement was made at the Cape and the camera showed the VIPs walking out of the stands. The teacher's dad looking up at the contrails with a forlorn and almost numb look on his face. Tore my heart out. I don't think it had really dawned upon him yet that his daughter was dead.
I saw that too, and I thought exactly the same thing. The poor man simply couldn't believe it.