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[matchgirl]

Today I was reminded of when the Challenger tragedy ocurred. We were living in Japan at the time. As the morning news was in Japanese, we never turned the TV on. I was on the train to Kobe to do some errands, when a Japanese gentleman asked if I was an American. Then he said,"Im so sorry about your astronauts" I, of course, asked him "What about our astronauts?" When he realized that I didn't know, he bowed, and said how sorry he was to have broken the news to me. I shall always remember his kindness.