4th of July Photo Shoot & Trivia Game (Ends July 4th)

[tripletfeb]

January 28th 1986.

Gotcha. Very sad day indeed. I was only four and still remember

 

[R2elk]

Ruffian vs Foolish Pleasure

Ruffian was a mare and Foolish Pleasure a stallion.

 

[Brooks_]

We had the "TV cart" to watch it live since I grew up in AZ and no way was I ever going to get to see one live. I was in 6th grade. After it happened, all the teachers who had kids watching kicked them out into the playground and kinda huddled up. Every now and then one would scurry off toward the office.and come back, then they'd talk more. They were visible upset and shaken. We stayed outside most of the day, the teachers would pull their classes together and talk about what happened and how it was some kind of accident, and no, no one put a bomb on the shuttle. etc, etc... Then they'd turn us loose again.

We all went to one friend's house after school. The parents all came over there to get us after they got off work. We didn't talk a whole lot that day, just watched the news as much as we could trying to process it.

That Smoking "Y" in the sky is an image I will never forget.

I'll not forget it either.

 

[R2elk]

Luckily you don’t make the rules.

Go check back near the start of the thread. Kiki made that rule.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Since seeing it happen from my back yard, I get to have poor taste and dark humor. I'll not say the others.

PTSD?

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

In the 1630s ____________proposed a system of geometry using letters in math.

A jerk?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Go check back near the start of the thread. Kiki made that rule.

Yeah, but it’s Kiki.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I'll not forget it either.

I imagine seeing it person would be even more indelible

 

[Brooks_]

PTSD?

While maybe not PTSD, the dark humor did help us cope at the time.

 

[Brooks_]

I imagine seeing it person would be even more indelible

It's not like I was at the Cape. Just the clear sky that day and the altitude. I had a view from a distance.