Saturday, January 28, 2006
Challenger
Maybe that’s when the journalist in me truly started breaking free. I wanted better information. By the time the next “flashbulb memory” hit I was in a newsroom … the Berlin wall was coming down, O.J. was on the run, the Murrah victims were scrambling toward safety, Columbine’s kids were sacrificed. Finally I moved to sports so I could remember things such as the Bulls winning 70 games in one season and the Packers going back to the Super Bowl. Harding and Kerrigan and minutiae that passes the time without marking the soul.
I was at home with my very young children the day the Towers fell. I clearly remember the then-3-year-old noticing when planes returned to the sky. She doesn’t remember that now. I’m thankful they don’t have any “flashbulb memories” yet.
So, as a teller of stories both fictional and real, I found the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s approach to the Challenger anniversary interesting. They actually were telling me something in a new way. And I wondered how much of my memory was real, and how big a trick my memory might be playing on me. They came back today with another interesting way of marking the anniversary.
Where were you that day in ’86?
We're so blessed to be here, to be living in the same world with people like them who have existed in our lifespan and we can live on and be inspired to live as fully as they did.
let me know how your cookies turn out- show a picture if you can!
I REMEMBER Exactly where I was the day the Challenger fell out of the sky.
I had to leave work early after having a low blood sugar episode .
Pregnant. weak and nauseous, I watched. sipping my orange, juice as the metal broke into fragments-fireball, then downfall.
What does it feel like to fall out of the sky? They cant be dead!- there is a teacher among them. Do space suits have parachutes? O my God her students are watching this!
When it was announced there were no survivors, I prayed that the force of the explosion was so quick, that they had no awareness of what happened to them.
P.S. I did find information on the mural artist. you can read and respond in comments under the pics of his work.
Namaste,
MB
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