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Nacogdoches Newspaper Confirms Remains Found
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Posted on 02/01/2003 5:10:07 PM PST by Arkinsaw
An East Texas high school was turned into a morgue as authorities collected the remains of astronauts from the doomed space shuttle Columbia.
Authorities said remains were being collected in an area between Hemphill and Jasper and taken to Hemphill High School. A local funeral home was assisting officials from the FBI and Defense Department in the grisly work.
One official said investigators were using a global positioning system to record where the remains were being found.
The remains which included an arm and a hand found near Chinquipin were part of the debris scattered across East Texas after the shuttle broke apart Saturday as it made its way towards a landing in Florida.
A flight helmet landed on James Couch's property near state Highway 103 and F.M. 1751 in San Augustine County. Couch kept guard over the helmet by setting up camp five feet away.
Couch said he and his family were eating breakfast when he heard something it turned out to be a piece of pipe hit the roof of his house.
"It didn't really scare me," Couch said. "A lot of people around here dynamite stumps on the weekend ... and the phone started to ring and my daughter from Pineland told me what happened."
Mica Miller was working on some equipment at his farm near Etoile when he heard some rumbling and noticed swirls of smoke in the sky. About two minutes later, he heard a swishing sound and saw that a large piece of debris had landed on a flatbed trailer 30 feet away.
"I'm devastated to see the aftermath of what just happened," Miller said.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: shuttle
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:10:08 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: Arkinsaw
There's a shot on another thread that looks like a mission patch from a flight suit. If this made it down, remains should also survive; though not intact.
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:12:00 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Join the Coalition to Prevent Unnecessarily Verbose and Nonsensical Tag Lines, eh)
To: Redcloak
(posted by hole_n_one on another thread.)
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:13:34 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Join the Coalition to Prevent Unnecessarily Verbose and Nonsensical Tag Lines, eh)
To: Redcloak
I bet there are more of these patches from a batch that they traditionally send up. They give them to freinds and family... This is very sad...
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:18:43 PM PST
by
ARA
To: Redcloak
Life can be very small and extremely large at the same time. I think the Jewish culture has it right about the dead when they collect the remains after a terrorist attack. God bless their souls.
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:19:27 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(woof)
To: Arkinsaw
in an area between Hemphill and Jasper
Jasper has had more than its share of grisly associations. These two towns are so far into the dark void of the East Texas Piney Woods that I don't even know where they are, and I'm from just east of East Texas.
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:24:05 PM PST
by
Clara Lou
To: Arkinsaw
I wonder how Nogadoches is really spelled?
LOL, 3 different versions in one article!
To: Publius6961
Nacogdoches
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:44:32 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(It's not a Zero it's an "O")
To: Arkinsaw; TEXASPROUD; Squantos
Couch said he and his family were eating breakfast when he heard something it turned out to be a piece of pipe hit the roof of his house. "It didn't really scare me," Couch said. "A lot of people around here dynamite stumps on the weekend ... You gotta love TEXANS!!!
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:47:53 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Redcloak
Ouch.
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posted on
02/01/2003 5:50:22 PM PST
by
lizma
To: Bogey78O
Nacogdoches Thank you...
I think
To: Arkinsaw
The remains which included an arm and a hand found near Chinquipin ..........
For the peace of mind for the families I wish they would quit reporting crap like this. It is enough to simply state that some remains were recovered. That goes for ALL THE MEDIA!!!!
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posted on
02/01/2003 6:17:44 PM PST
by
YOMO
To: Redcloak
For going through everything that it did that piece looks rather pristine.
To: Publius6961
"I wonder how Nogadoches is really spelled?" The correct spelling is Nacogdoches.
It is pronounced Na-coe-DOE-shus.
Indian word. Coushatta or Choctaw, I believe.
Nacogdoches is in the East Texas piney woods and was the first stop on the Old San Antonio Road -- the route by which Moses and Stephen F. Austin led the white settlers into Texas.
The Old San Antonio Road began in Louisiana, at Natchitoches. NACK-o-tish.
Same tribe...
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posted on
02/01/2003 6:29:38 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
To: okie01
Isn't Stephen F. Austin college up there?
To: okie01
Not to make light of what has happened today, but I've cracked some smiles watching the northern anchors try to say Nacogdoches. Shep Smith got twisted up earlier and confused it with Nachitoches in Louisiana.
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posted on
02/01/2003 6:47:16 PM PST
by
GOPyouth
To: Travis McGee
This gal from JOISEY, just loves Texas and one Texan in particular.
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posted on
02/01/2003 6:54:00 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH)
To: Travis McGee
I am one and that line had me grinnin' til the 'bacca show'd..
To: austinTparty
"Isn't Stephen F. Austin college up there?" Correct. Nacogdoches is the home of the Stephen F. Austin State University Lumberjacks.
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posted on
02/01/2003 6:56:48 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
To: Arkinsaw
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posted on
02/01/2003 7:01:22 PM PST
by
petuniasevan
(RIP Columbia crew - you were the "right stuff")
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