That's crazy.

I was in high school. For the most part we had no classes that afternoon, and we all gathered in groups around TV sets in various classrooms and watched the news. It was stunning.

In Germany field testing a (then new) weapons system..

That's where all of us old people were! LOL

School...

You had the same reflection as me !

I went Huh ?
No way :mad:


Shit...

I was in third grade and I had been feeling ill. So, I was in the nurse's office and she has news radio on. They came on to say it happened and so I heard it before most of our school because they didn't have us watch it. I went back to my class and said what happened and the teacher called me an outright liar. Which, sticks with me because I knew I wasn't lying and was a goodie two shoes kid. So, there was no reason to think I would be lying. Then, the next day the jerk had to apologize to me in front of the class.

That was the day I decided I wanted to go to journalism school because I got a weird buzz out of breaking the story.

My mom was a science teacher and had applied to be on the shuttle. So, I was also glad she hadn't made it.

watching it live in school, won't forget that shock

There were a lot of us in school that day.