Where were you? (Dallas check-in)

[ER <ression@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Beth <belleps at o...> wrote:
> 
> The thing that I remember watching on black-and-white TVs in my 
elementary 
> school classroom was the first man walking on the moon. Yep, I'm 
that old. 
> <grin>

Ah, yes, I remember it well too, though watching at home, not school! 
And poor old Neil Armstrong, fluffing his big line :)

Another (near) tragedy that I also remember very vividly is the 
Apollo-13 accident. Our house-teacher asked all to pray for the safe 
delivery of the astronauts and then we were all called into the 
assembly hall where the television was on (a rare enough event itself 
in the UK in those days). The headmaster explained what had happened 
and said that the men were going to get back OK, and then he lead us 
all in more prayers. I suppose the fact that the men weren't yet 
dead, but might be soon, made it a lot "worse" than something that 
had happened and was "over". I guess the world agonised for a couple 
of days ...

ER