Friday, February 1, 2008

Remembering...

It's hard to believe that five years have past since the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart and disintegrated over Texas, but today is indeed the anniversary of that tragic event. Perhaps because it was the second shuttle disaster (lacking, I guess, the shock of the new that was provided by Challenger in 1986), or maybe because it happened early on a Saturday morning, when fewer people are watching television, I've nevertheless always thought that it was a tragedy that faded from memory far quicker than most. Anyway, the names of the seven astronauts killed certainly deserve to be remembered today.

Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
David Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon.

God bless you all.

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