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Feeling better today; work went an order of magnitude more smoothly, everyone was in a better mood and I also had group therapy and a bookstore crawl tonight. Profuse thanks to all of you who responded (including and especially the Songbird, who called and chided me for not calling her despite the lateness of her hour).
Jan. 28th, 2009
Forty-two years ago yesterday, Lt. Col. Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (US Air Force), Lt. Col. Edward Higgins White II (USAF) and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee (US Navy) became America's first martyrs to the cause of space exploration. I was 3.5 years old in my birthplace of Lafayette, LA.
Twenty-three years ago today, Capt. Gregory Bruce Jarvis (USAF), Lt. Col. Ellison Shoji Onizuka (USAF), Lt. Col. Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (USAF), Capt. Michael John Smith (USN) and civilian mission specialists Judith Arlene Resnik, Ph.D., Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe and Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. became seven more. I was 22 and living in New Orleans, half a year out of college and in my very first real full-time job as a graphic designer for a sign company.
And just six years ago this coming Sunday, we lost yet another seven: Col. Richard Douglas "Rick" Husband (USAF), Cmdr. William Cameron "Willie" McCool (USN), Lt. Col. Michael Phillip Anderson, M.S. (USAF), Navy Capts. David McDowell Brown, M.D. and Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D., Col. Ilan Ramon (Israeli Air Force) and civilian specialist Kalpana Chawla, Ph.D. I was about to hit the big 4-0 and living with the Songbird in Philadelphia, getting ready for our move south to Atlanta the next month.
To the crews of Apollo 1, STS-51-L Challenger and STS-107 Columbia, and all the others from every nation who gave their lives to pave our way to the stars...no thanks can ever possibly be even close to enough—but thank you all.
Twenty-three years ago today, Capt. Gregory Bruce Jarvis (USAF), Lt. Col. Ellison Shoji Onizuka (USAF), Lt. Col. Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (USAF), Capt. Michael John Smith (USN) and civilian mission specialists Judith Arlene Resnik, Ph.D., Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe and Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. became seven more. I was 22 and living in New Orleans, half a year out of college and in my very first real full-time job as a graphic designer for a sign company.
And just six years ago this coming Sunday, we lost yet another seven: Col. Richard Douglas "Rick" Husband (USAF), Cmdr. William Cameron "Willie" McCool (USN), Lt. Col. Michael Phillip Anderson, M.S. (USAF), Navy Capts. David McDowell Brown, M.D. and Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D., Col. Ilan Ramon (Israeli Air Force) and civilian specialist Kalpana Chawla, Ph.D. I was about to hit the big 4-0 and living with the Songbird in Philadelphia, getting ready for our move south to Atlanta the next month.
To the crews of Apollo 1, STS-51-L Challenger and STS-107 Columbia, and all the others from every nation who gave their lives to pave our way to the stars...no thanks can ever possibly be even close to enough—but thank you all.