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Where were you 28 years ago today?

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Post by gvprod Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:10 pm

28 years ago today, was the day the Challenger exploded, where were you, what do you remember.

I was on my way to a music conference, in my car, I could not believe what I had heard on the radio. I had to pull over. The conference was a very somber one that year.
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Post by tictoc Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:27 pm

I was 11 and and watching it live on TV... :(

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Post by David Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:42 pm

We had it on TV in my office.
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Post by Jim W Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:49 pm

Sitting, waiting for my flight out of LaGuardia Airport.
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Post by zenwoodle Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:23 pm

I had just wrapped up some meetings at Royal Insurance Canada, and someone came into the meeting room and told us what had happened.
I went to a pub to meet some friends for lunch and we all sat there in silence watching the TV.  Beer 
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Post by Lady Otter Latté Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:10 pm

I was at work. A radio was playing music and people were talking when the broadcast was interrupted. I thought I had misheard what they said. I turned up the volume and the room went silent. After listening for a while, I returned to my office and cried.
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Post by Intercasa Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:13 pm

In a high school classroom
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Post by ShanConshue Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:15 pm

In a jr high classroom..
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Post by Zedinmexico Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:37 am

Walking down the hall at work and saw it on the TV's as we had switched to CNN all over the factory.  Very quiet day after that. It was murder as far as I was concerned. They had no business ignoring the engineers who said too cold for the solid boosters.  I also felt sorry for the engineers who had to live with the situation after.

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Post by CanuckBob Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:49 am

I was 22 and at work in a retail store. I saw it live on the TV's in the electronics department.
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Post by Hensley Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:59 am

I was 21 and I was watching it on TV it was very sad. I cried because I had been following the story about Christa McAuliffe the teacher.
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Post by arbon Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:32 am

I was retired ...and not watching TV.
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Post by Zea Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:10 pm

I was aboard a Spanish fishing boat 150 miles off New York.  Didn't know anything about it until a crew member asked me if I thought it was sabotage.  Didn't get back ashore for another three weeks, so I missed much of the TV coverage.  Thankfully.

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Post by barbicheesecake Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:15 pm

I was working as a loan officer in Wapakoneta, Ohio (ironically Neil Armstrong's home town) when a co-worker came back from lunch and told what happened.
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Post by lobita Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:31 pm

High school German class. It was a while before I realized that not just the astronauts, but our entire space program, died that day.
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Post by Zedinmexico Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:23 pm

We had lost three astronauts years earlier from having a 100% oxygen in the early Apollo capsule. They burned up on the pad in Florida.  The Russians have lost many many folks. It is an expensive endeavor human life wise but I think the Shuttle disaster didn't end the space program.  Budget problems did basically. I do get your point. It did change things.

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Post by saege007 Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:36 am

I was at home "sick" with my older sister. We stayed home to watch some soap opera we had gotten hooked on during winter break (and had strategically stayed home once a week to find out what was going on). I was 10.
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Post by suegarn Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:02 am

I was on vacation in Fort Myers at the time. We were sitting out on the patio and saw this weird smoke in the sky. I went inside a little later and saw the news broadcast on the TV.....totally shocked! I couldn't believe that it was visible from so far away!

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Post by Luisa Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:09 am

I was teaching a high school American Lit class when I was called into the hall and given the news. I thought about how my history teacher broke the news of the Kennedy assassination and tried to follow her example as I told my students. I then led the class to the library so we could all watch the news on TV. (This was my last year teaching. I moved into the business world the following year.)

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