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1.28.2011

Well, if today is the 25th anniversary of the Challenger exploding, I'm guessing Monday or Tuesday is the anniversary of all the fifth graders asking one another, "What does NASA stand for?" and everyone answering, "Need Another Seven Astronauts".

Makes me wonder what Jake's first in-school live-televised disaster will be and how the kids will deal.

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LceeL said...: That is funny. That is SO bad. but that is funny.; January 28, 2011 8:08 AM
Bridget said...: Mine was the police chase of OJ Simpson. Not even kidding. My fourth grade teacher couldn't turn it off.

But for realsies, I will never, ever, EVER forget being called into the chapel my junior year of high school to be told that two planes had just crashed into the World Trade Center. Ever.; January 28, 2011 8:14 AM
Jenny said...: I was remembering all those inappropriate jokes this morning too.

Evan is fascinated that his parents were alive for the Challenger disaster. That seems like ancient history to him. And it amazes him that we were the same age (9) that he is now when it happened.; January 28, 2011 10:17 AM
Lizzi said...: Makes me wonder too.

I still have a newspaper from the Challenger. My grandma was in Hawaii and saved it and somehow I got it. I'm pretty sure none of the kids I know actually know about i.t; January 28, 2011 10:57 AM
Holli said...: Has it really been 25 years already? Wow. feel old moment!

And I had to laugh at the what does NASA stand for joke. I had TOTALLY forgotten about that one!; January 28, 2011 11:43 AM
RuthWells said...: I'm old. The first communal tragedy I remember experiencing was the shooting of John Lennon.; January 28, 2011 12:19 PM
Katia / Crazy For Trying said...: Challenger -- grade 7, school yard.
OJ Simpson verdict -- in a van driving between Toronto and London.
9/11 -- at work.

and then I got to thinking about other communal tragedies in my lifetime: Columbine, Ecole Polytechnique massacre (1989), Dawson College shooting (2006) are only 3 that come to mind right away... in reality, there have been too many for me to name much less remember them all.

And this makes me very very sad.; January 28, 2011 2:23 PM
Darcy said...: it's so weird i have VIVID memory of watching this on television in second grade. I remember which way we were facing and the photos of the smiling astronauts. so weird.
That joke did not make it to the Midwest thankfully :-)!; January 28, 2011 3:29 PM
Jay Ferris said...: Crazy. My son Evan is pretty much the same age I was when this happened. Also, I really hope his first in-school disaster is about Arkansas falling into the ocean.; January 28, 2011 3:32 PM
When Pigs Fly said...: I remember that. Interesting thought about your little boy. We all have events we remember so vividly like that.; January 28, 2011 6:42 PM
Pamela said...: I was in the fourth grade, Mr. Adrian's class. It was my grandpa's birthday, and also my classmate's birthday.

I was teaching 8th grade math when the World Trade Towers fell down.

So surreal.; January 28, 2011 10:12 PM
Avitable said...: When you see my post for today, just know I wrote it BEFORE seeing your post. Great minds, and all that. :); January 29, 2011 12:08 AM
slommler said...: I remember this day very well...and OJ Simpson and 9/11! I will never forget!!
Hugs
SueAnn; January 29, 2011 6:44 AM
IT (aka Ivan Toblog) said...: Oh, man... I think I hate it that I can remember where I was when I heard that Stalin died. Not that it made me sad or anything.
The Challenger was the first one where I wasn't busy doing something else at the time. By that time I'd come to a realization that things happen. We can make plans only up to a point. Beyond that point we can only control our attitude.; January 29, 2011 2:51 PM
renalfailure said...: Challenger blew up on my birthday, as I was passing out Munchkins to my classmates in first grade. I tend to believe that might have some sort of effect on my development.; January 29, 2011 3:09 PM
Jen said...: I remember watching the Challenger launch . . . and disaster in my first grade classroom.

The OJ verdict was the next biggest event I can remember being on TV at school.

My sisters experienced the Columbine shooting via school television and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

What will our kids see? Great question since the school shootings, political crimes, and war have lost their shock value. It will probably have something to the effect of Justin Beiber ODing or something.; January 29, 2011 9:53 PM
Haley said...: I was happily playing at home when the Challenger exploded. But I vividly remember them showing a replay of it when we watched the space shuttle Discovery take off in 1991. Mr. Sabo, told us how it is one of those moments that you would never forget. Just like how he would never forget the principal coming over the PA to announce that President Kennedy had been shot. It is very true. I remember, right down to the necklace, what my friend and coworker, Lea, was wearing when she told me to turn on the news when 9/11 happened. Just like I remember getting the phone call that my father had fallen and was seriously injured at work. Things like that you just don't forget.; January 31, 2011 1:04 PM
LoriD said...: Now they watch the disasters unfold on the Smart Boards in the classroom - Lisa came home absolutely drained after watching the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake on one little corner of the Smart Board while they carried on with the rest of their lessons.; February 1, 2011 12:19 PM
Amber Star said...: I don't know about 25 years from now, but it will no doubt be ghastly and sad. Right now it seems to be something daily. I can't believe what is going on in Egypt. Actually I've seen a LOT of things I couldn't believe in the past 25 or 50 years.; February 3, 2011 11:28 AM
insomniac ellen said...: For me it was the 3 assassinations between my 10th and 14th years: JFK, MLK and RFK. The events of Hurricane Katrina are my watershed adult memories....

for my kids it was probably the Challenger and the OJ debacle.

For my grandson it will be 9-11.

For my mom, it would have been the Depression and WWII.

History and life can be overwhelming at times; February 3, 2011 6:29 PM
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