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I had some shower maintaince to do so I intended to go into work late that day. I think I was actually in the shower when it happened, but wether I was working on it or using it, I'm not sure. When I got into my car to finally go to work, they were of course discussing the event, but they were talking to a teacher about it, so what exactly had happened was not clear at first. It took a minute or two for what had happended to sink in. I went back in the house and watched the replays. Dallas in '63 (8th grade lunchtime), Challenger, and of course 9-11 (wake up to the radio saying that an aircraft had hit the WTC, then two aircraft. Got up in time to see the first tower to fall.) Lots of major impressions on the old brain.

I'd just come to Japan a couple of months earlier , and was living with a friend in Kanagawa . We turned on the TV news that morning and heard the tragic news . I cried when they showed Ms. McCauliffe's Mom and Dad ...