[Ff--150]

Pastor, it blew up right over us. I was outside and momentarily the sky got brighter and thought what a bright morning it was, not noting anything as my back was to the shuttle.

I came indoors and was working on a switch when the massive explosion hit rattling the windows, followed with a bizarre rumbling, again shaking the walls and windows. This was 5 after eight according to my clock. (Oddly, that switch started working, no joking!)

Wondering about my wife I called her and she hadn't heard anything, so I finished the repair and began listening for sirens to give me a clue what happened and where.

Forty-five minutes later I clicked on the internet then to Free Republic and read where this had happened and thought this was a perverted thread on here, but in reading where and what time, I was aghast!

Mercy upon their souls and families--and this nation and Israel. Obviously I'm writing from the Dallas area, and three of the crew was from Texas, with a real irony being that they are finding debris not too far from where the lady from India graduated from college. God bless us all on this day.

Ff

[xzins]

Such a sad thing, Ff.

I wonder why the loud explosion if there was no fuel on board? I thought they jettisoned that once they hit glide path before reentry?

How loud was the explosion you heard?

Our prayers are with you and your counties as you sort this out.

X

[ELS]

Eternal rest grant unto them, O, Lord
And let eternal light shine upon them.
May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed,
Through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.