Posted on 01/27/2006 7:32:25 AM PST by Billie
Hope it will be helpful to you! :o)
Just had a look at the website pretty impressive
I was at work and we could not believe what we were hearing over the radio that they had on on the shop floor, cannot remember who told us but it was certainly a shock.
Why Thanks Snugs, this is only the beginning and much more to come. Those are my hands and bathroom. I have been wanting to fix the rotten work since we moved here.
It did. I just felt so helpless as I watched it fading into the sky. Of course the tragedy had already happened when I saw it, but I knew what it was. *sigh*
In a way the fact it had already happened and you knew what the con trails were must have made it even worse.
Knowing you were getting ready for work and posted in haste, the Challenger Disaster did happen 20 years ago today - in 1986 - but was not in Texas.
Because I lived in Brevard County before Cape Canaveral became the Space Center, from 1943 to 1952, and from 1957 to 1961, I saw and heard many of the early space flights, as well as the one to the moon in the 60's.
That included the first manned ones, and the one with the first man to go into orbit. My two sons were in grade school then, and they were taken outdoors from class to see launches.
The Columbia Disaster happened a mere 73 seconds after the lift off from Cape Canaveral, and the seven Astronauts aboard perished.
The most publicized was the first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe.
Actually, the anniversary of the Columbia Disaster is this coming week, on February 1st, and of course it was the one over Texas we remember so vividly.
The year was 2003, and thus this February 1st will be the Third Anniversary.
No doubt God has special resting places of honor for all those who dare/dared to explore the heavens above us, and now holds the perished in His hands - -
Here's a gem, Your Honor, from a dear friend in Florida - -
Why Go To Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.
But I do know this ... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say,
"Jesus, could you get that for me?"
Great Post.
I thought I had responded earlier (but not, I guess) to say:
That eskimo legend is a beautiful thought. Thanks for posting it.
How very lovely and inspiring, Lady. Thanks for the ping.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. Good post. Thank you.
That was excellent! Thank you..
That pic of the clouds is awesome!
We weren't confusing the two..#168
Nice thread here on the Challenger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566877/posts
Remembering the Challenger 20 years later: Beautiful tribute by the Washington Post
The Washington Post ^ | January 28, 2006
I was a Department Manager with Sears, and at the time it was my practice to browse in an Almanac, each day reading on break a section, and committing it to memory. Terry was interested, and began doing it, too, each day - and we would exchange our Little Facts in the Employee Break Room, thus doubling our Things Learned.
Before long, other employees would stop us and demand
The Interesting Fact of the Day. Great cultural exchanges!
Fast forward to 1979 when I went to Moses Cone Hospital, hired as a Department Secretary, helping the new Director create the newly independent Department.
One day, having finished my immediate work, I reached for my Almanac, and Woody flippantly said, "Give the Almanac to me, and we'll see how much you know!"
The very day before, I had been dabbling in chronological history back in the 300's and 400's B.C. - would you believe that is where he went to quiz me?!!
Boy, was he ever impressed when I rattled off a string of ancient events..:)
Knowledge can be fun, and even more so these days when you can "Ask Jeeves" and cruise through Google for graphics, like The Hands of God clouds!
I am currently at Al Asad Air Base and I see these planes always on the go every day. I work near the air field.
Love your tagline - "(Bring back Patton)"
Patton was definitely "one of a kind,"
with no thought of having to be "Politically Correct."
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