A school day - pre-school for my daughter, university classes for me.  The TV on in the background while I rushed to get us out the door.  Something happening, but nothing that caught my attention.  On the city bus to the pre-school, someone tells me one of the Towers has been blow...  read more

Third grade.  Mrs. Angeletta's class.  Bremerton, WA.  The entire elementary school was brought into the gym to watch the Challenger launch.  We had studied it in Weekly Readers for weeks in advance, and they had us so excited about the idea of the first teacher in space. M...  read more

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

Lost for words - TerrorismI remember hearing the 'rumor' while I was sitting at my desk at work. I quickly jumped onto CNN find out more. Within seconds our network connection dropped to zero. We all got up & turned on the TV in the conference room. To our horror we saw one of the towers burn...  read more

2003 North American blackout    Early after noon, my computer died at work.  We hung around for a little while, but as it seemed we weren't going to get the power back on, we decided to go home.  Luckily only 1 traffic light separated me from the expressway.   &...  read more

I was in third grade at Thornton's Ferry Elementary, and we went next door to Mrs. Wilson's room to watch it live on the TV they set up. I don't remember many of the details, but I remember watching the TV and seeing it go up, and up, and up... then something went terribly wrong. The two or three...  read more

Like many American schoolchildren of the '80s, I was a witness to the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. As a second grader, I remember being ushered into the third grade classrooms with my classmates to watch the launch of "the teacher in space". Although later I had an interest and fa...  read more