god bless america

I was on Charleston Air Force Base, in Charleston, SC, (in between the runways and tarmacs) pulling insulation out from the ceiling our field office. When a guy I was working with received the message over his beeper about it. We then turned the radio on and listened. About that time our field supervisor came out to us, and told us we had to leave the base, or risk being locked in on base and would not be able to leave. About that time I looked up toward Charleston Airport and all I could see was plane after plane landing. That was when it really hit me to what had happened.

The Challenger explosion, I think I was around 5 - 7 and I was at my Great-Grandmothers watching the lift off on TV LIVE when it blew up. Those are 2 days that I will never forget.

I was at home watching MSNBC when that fatal day occured. Was also at home watching the Challenger live when it exploded. Though both were horrible tradgedy's, the Challenger kind of hit home. My Dad worked for NASA for 21 years at the V.A.B. in the data processing center that collected all the data from the missions, so it just kind of hit home hard.

Now to really make most of you people here feel young, or make some of us feel old, I can remember a day in 1963 very vividly. Though I did not understand what was going on until years later, I can remember my Mother just crying histerically for hours on end, that was the day when J.F.K. was asassinated.

i hooked school in 7th grade..went to my nana's house..where i watched the challenger explode. stuck w/ me.

woke up 9/11 to msnbc...imus in the morning was showing eveything...sobered up quick from my hangover. went into work soon after the pentagon was hit. longest day at work ever.

my brother will be home from the navy next week after 4 years. thank god he made it...he was on the uss lincoln for the war on terror.