twenty-nine years ago today

[chanter1944]

1638 UTC. Rest in peace, Challenger seven.

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Re: OH, dear--

[technoshaman]

*nods* I *remember* watching that footage, but I don't remember *where*...

Yeah, I remember my folks telling what they were doing that November day... and I *understood* but I didn't *grok*....

Re: OH, dear--

[chanter1944]

It was said by a history teacher of mine, shortly after another day that won't soon be forgotten, that September 11 was my generation's Kennedy assassination. I didn't quite understand just what my mother meant about that day in 1963 until the aftermath of 2001's events.

Re: OH, dear--

[dialecticdreamer]

My boys were very young when 9-11 happened. They were SO agitated and upset by the live footage that I turned off the television after somewhere between fifteen and thirty minutes. Definitely less than thirty, but not by much.

They talk about it more in the abstract, because I wasn't going to allow my feelings of trauma to bleed over and wreck THEIR psyches (they were barely in grade school). Very similar to the impact of Reagan's shooting, though I was in middle school when that happened.

I just hope they have another decade or more before they grok, too.