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Dec. 12th, 2002 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireAnother teacher goes into space.
That means a lot to me, for reasons that don't really translate well. At least not yet. But I have never forgotten watching that shuttle go up, and explode into sparkling fragments and smoke. How we were sent home early from school, and the horrified sound of my teacher's voice behind me, saying "Oh God." All those years, all those sci-fi novels and all those dreams of the universe beyond our atmosphere.
That means a lot to me, for reasons that don't really translate well. At least not yet. But I have never forgotten watching that shuttle go up, and explode into sparkling fragments and smoke. How we were sent home early from school, and the horrified sound of my teacher's voice behind me, saying "Oh God." All those years, all those sci-fi novels and all those dreams of the universe beyond our atmosphere.
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Date: 2002-12-16 09:28 am (UTC)It's fascinating, all these things we saw on television growing up. How the world changed right under our feet.
Somewhere I have the newspaper front page the day after Tiannamen, with that epic image of the man and the tank. I remember my mother showing it to me in the morning, and how I cried on the way to school.