{"id":2626,"date":"2002-05-28T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2002-05-28T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2002-05-28T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2002-05-28T18:10:11","slug":"a_monday_memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/28\/a_monday_memory.html","title":{"rendered":"A Monday Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s also time for a Monday Memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I just heard a news report about a bridge collapse. What’s one of your earliest memories of something awful that was “news”?<\/b><\/p>\n

\"CrewI have the vaguest of memories of the Apollo 1 launch pad fire<\/a>. Whispy recollection of television pictures of the smoke, hearing about it, trying to imagine what had happened.<\/p>\n

Three astronauts died: Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. It was the worst NASA disaster until the Challenger <\/i>blew up.<\/p>\n

That would have been right after I turned 6.<\/p>\n

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). <\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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