[PalmettoMason]

I was a Drill Sergeant at Ft. Leonard Wood Mo. We had taken our company on a 15 mile road march that morning, and I was home for a shower and to "break starch" on a fresh uniform before going back for the training day. Was sitting there watching the launch while lacing my boots when it all went wrong.

Thank God we had Ronald Reagan for the time we did.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm as big a fan of Reagan as anyone, but I've also had people tell me something that I suspected for a long time . . . that NASA launched the Challenger that morning under pressure from the Reagan Administration -- because they wanted to get that teacher up in space before the State of the Union address the following week.