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From Excitement to Horror: Columbia's Last Flight Online (New York Times)
New York Times and Free Republic.Com | 9 Feb 03 | Tom Kuntz

Posted on 02/09/2003 4:02:34 AM PST by leadpenny

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1 posted on 02/09/2003 4:02:35 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: Jim Robinson
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2 posted on 02/09/2003 4:04:26 AM PST by leadpenny
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3 posted on 02/09/2003 4:08:36 AM PST by Allan
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4 posted on 02/09/2003 4:09:21 AM PST by leadpenny
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God bless that wonderful crew.......and their families; and you, as well, for providing such a record for posterity.
5 posted on 02/09/2003 4:10:09 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: leadpenny
Wow! FR makes the Times! I must be dreaming!
6 posted on 02/09/2003 4:11:05 AM PST by JennysCool
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7 posted on 02/09/2003 4:12:51 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: visitor
Good morning, again.
8 posted on 02/09/2003 4:14:32 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny
I recall the thread and am glad that we got the press (tragic event that it was, the final voyage was observed and marvelled at by those who did not realize what they were truly seeing).

I have to wonder though if they learned of the FR thread from FR or the DU thread that pointed at it (after the fact).

9 posted on 02/09/2003 4:15:41 AM PST by weegee
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Don't know. But, to Tom Kuntz, thank you for a nice piece and thank you from the FreeRepublic community.
10 posted on 02/09/2003 4:19:47 AM PST by leadpenny
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Oh my Gosh! Well, lead!! Hardly know what to say!
11 posted on 02/09/2003 4:20:16 AM PST by Molly Pitcher (Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow....)
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WOW youse guys made the big Times!!!!
12 posted on 02/09/2003 4:22:39 AM PST by Neets (<-----Official ATRW Morning Drive Cheerleader)
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To: JennysCool
Wow! FR makes the Times! I must be dreaming!

I expect a surge in traffic once NY Times subscribers read this. And with that, a whole new crop of disruptors. It will be busy enough with war imminent -- I sure hope JimRob and company are prepared! I can't imagine what I'd do if FR were down during the opening hours of the war. I've become spoiled, expecting to read of breaking events within seconds of their occurrence!

13 posted on 02/09/2003 4:24:34 AM PST by TrappedInLiberalHell (Let's Iraq and Roll!)
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
"I've become spoiled, expecting to read of breaking events within seconds of their occurrence"


Same here... as a matter of fact, I hit Free Republic as soon as I heard the shuttle was gone. I kept reading updates before they hit the news on the TV behind me.

14 posted on 02/09/2003 4:28:39 AM PST by Tamzee (There are 10 types of people... those who read binary, and those who don't.)
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To: leadpenny
You realize, of course, that your thread is going into the history books -- already there if you consider that the Times gets microfilmed by most libraries. I have archived the first 150 posts.
15 posted on 02/09/2003 4:29:05 AM PST by js1138
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
I was just thinking the other way. Drudge linked a Paglia thread yesterday and now this.

Welcome to new Lurkers and Members. We don't bite, usually.

16 posted on 02/09/2003 4:29:25 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny
There was a picture posted earlier of a family smiling with the debris.
17 posted on 02/09/2003 4:34:11 AM PST by djf
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To: Tamsey
I always come here first for breaking news. It's interesting that this ran in the Times at all, considering THEIR source had to be the Wall Street Journal. How humiliating.
18 posted on 02/09/2003 4:37:00 AM PST by js1138
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To: leadpenny
good going and for all those in mid-life...

"And still, they were willing to chase the dream, to soar along an upward arc rather than concede to limits."...rto

19 posted on 02/09/2003 4:38:52 AM PST by visitor (Thank God George Bush Won)
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To: visitor
And for those of us almost past mid-life. :)
20 posted on 02/09/2003 4:44:42 AM PST by leadpenny
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