Where were you on January 28th, 1986?
Driving home from a college class. Flipped on the car radio and picked up a NASA press conference in mid stream. I could tell that obviously something very bad had happened but the guy giving the presser droned on in typical bureaucrat fashion and never really said exactly what. It was not till I reached home that my family told me.
I was working in a downtown office. No TV or radio. A coworker told me what happened. I didn’t cry until I saw the pictures that night. Such a shock.
Where were you on Jan. 28, 1986 ...
Picking up stats at the county courthouse, then hurried back to the newspaper. I believe we hovered around the AP feed and read each bulletin as it came in.
When I went home (still lived with my folks since I was paid $4.25 per hour) my mom said grimly, “Have you seen this? It’s pretty bad ...”
There was a song out about then called “Kyrie Eleison” (sp) (Which I think means “Lord, have mercy ...”) and some of the words included “Kyrie Eleison on the road that I must travel ...”
Tough all the way around. I only hope we learned from it.