Reply #11: I didn't have the television on that morning

[skygazer]

My daughter was five and she was upstairs watching tv with her uncle. She came down and told me, "I saw a space ship blow up" and I said, "That's nice, honey" thinking she meant that she saw the launch. Then I turned on the television. :(

Very sad day, indeed. I'll never forget the way the media played and replayed and replayed the faces of Christa McCauliffe's parents as they watched... and then realized what they'd seen. It was obscene, a horrible invasion of privacy, I thought.