Comments on: 1986 – The Fish Died

By: RC - Rambling Along...

RC - Rambling Along... — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:33:38 +0000

I was in grade school, and remember the explosion too well. I remember watching the TV and knowing it didn’t look right.
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By: pamela

pamela — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:51:44 +0000

I was in fourth grade, too. Sorry I haven’t been around much… I haven’t been around anywhere much. There are just so. many. children. who need things right. fucking. now.

Meh.
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By: Fannie

Fannie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:10:17 +0000

It’s our generations “Where were you when you heard about JFK”.
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By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:51:47 +0000

Fourth grade. Day or two after the Bears won the Super Bowl.

Can you imagine the incredible high that we all felt from the Fridge and Sweetness winning the big game followed by that incredible low hearing how the First Teacher in Space was lost with all those other astronauts?

Yeah.
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By: Krissa

Krissa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:51:36 +0000

Yeah. I guess almost everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing at times like that. That was very vividly told!
So the fish died, hu? (drying tears)
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By: Green Girl in Wisconsin

Green Girl in Wisconsin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:23:52 +0000

That is one vivid memory you retained over the years! V. impressive writing!
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By: Liz J in Central Illinois

Liz J in Central Illinois — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:41:23 +0000

Ah, 1986. Such a good year, but such a bad one in many ways.

I was at work when we heard the news about the Challenger explosion. What a horrible tragedy!

I got laid off from my job just a week before Mr. Dizzy and I got married, so I spent the first few months of (re)married life (this is my second marriage) job hunting. The first job I found only lasted 2 months, because the boss was a pervert and kept trying to look down my blouse! *sheesh*

When Mr. Dizzy and I got married, I moved into his small (720 sq. ft!) house, and we had to pare down two households of stuff! So I had the opposite problem from you – - too bad we didn’t know each other back then – - I had an extra two courches!

Thanks for the trip back in time, Ree!
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By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:23:47 +0000

I remember that. My mom was a teacher. It was a teacher workday, so I was out of school and with my mom at her school instead of my own, and we were in someone else’s classroom, when they announced on the intercom that the space shuttle had blown up. Everyone was very upset, because she was a teacher! She was one of them! We watched tv and talked about it the rest of the afternoon.