It’s also time for a Monday Memory.
I just heard a news report about a bridge collapse. What’s one of your earliest memories of something awful that was “news”?
I have the vaguest of memories of the Apollo 1 launch pad fire. Whispy recollection of television pictures of the smoke, hearing about it, trying to imagine what had happened.
Three astronauts died: Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. It was the worst NASA disaster until the Challenger blew up.
That would have been right after I turned 6.
From an ongoing drawn-out “something awful,” I can remember TV news coverage of the Viet Nam war, and how, each night, there would be a little score card on the screen, next to the appropriate flags, of casualties among US, ARVN, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces (with decreasing accuracy, of course, as you ran down the list).
I use the term “score card” realistically, because it struck me at the time as a contest — and I could never figure out, in my tender years, why, if our numbers were so much better than theirs, we weren’t “winning.”
I didn’t fill in my email address and got an error, you have no error template 🙁
now I have to try to remember what I wrote.
Keeping score on a war is bizarre!
I don’t remember Apollo 1. First Apollo mission I remember is 8. I remember watching it on television, and the logo, being an 8, wrapped around the earth and the moon, indicating the mission path, to orbit them both.
Yeah, that’s on my List of Things to Tweak. And depending on your browser settings, Back might not restore the form contents. *sigh*