Texan is the most even handed unbiased person...
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Texan said:
lol.. get out of here as fast as you can .hehe lol...
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Well, he ranks above you.p_p_man said:
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Cheyenne said:
This has been a tough day.
The fence I was building was in Houston at the home of my mother and father-in-law. (not in the debris zone) My in-laws were at their ranch up in east Texas, near Crockett. (in the middle of the debris zone) I was working with my two brothers-in-law when around 10:00 this morning, we got a call from my mother-in-law. She said they had already found one small piece of debris and they needed help looking around the property (5000 acres). The three of us drove up to east Texas and spent the rest of the day driving around and walking through the woods. We found 4 pieces of debris, the largest was about 3 feet long and 2 feet across.
Two of the astronauts on this flight, were men I knew well. Not close personal friends, but we have worked together frequently and one came, with his wife and daughter, to a bbq at my house last July. I'm not a particularly emotional guy, but I've been fighting tears all day. A LOT of my friends work at NASA. This is going to devastate the program. I went through the Challenger disaster with some of these people, and I hope they can handle this.
Sixteen days ago, seven magnificent people left this earth. This morning, when they left their earthly lives, they were already forty miles closer to heaven.
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got it !
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*SIGH*
Well, I had planned on hopping into this thread to say that I don't know about being even handed and unbiased, but definately interesting and intelligent. Stud muffin to boot.
However, reading your experience today just makes my heart want to weep with you. I know how I feel not knowing those men and women. I can hardly comprehend knowing who they were and missing them in my life. I think it's fair to say that the average person thinks astronauts are a breed apart, isolated, grown up in some different way. But they're not. You've just reminded us how ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
I'll be thinkin' about you in the next days, Texan. *hugs*
However, reading your experience today just makes my heart want to weep with you. I know how I feel not knowing those men and women. I can hardly comprehend knowing who they were and missing them in my life. I think it's fair to say that the average person thinks astronauts are a breed apart, isolated, grown up in some different way. But they're not. You've just reminded us how ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
I'll be thinkin' about you in the next days, Texan. *hugs*
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What a touching statement.Texan said:
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Either you're in the wrong thread or, well, never mind.
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Texan said:
I should have remembered you having ties to the program from back in a thread a year or so ago which was talking about education, etc. backgrounds. I'd forgotten the rocket scientist background and was thinking only of your location this morning when I wondered about you.
I'm sorry for your loss, Texan.
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Imi said:
Thanks Imi. I have a good memory when it comes to your hugs.
I know this wasn't one of the "disaster" threads, but it was the first thread I read when I got home and logged on.
I can't help but think of the three astronauts who are still up on the ISS. They are alone except for each other, and they were close friends of the seven that died today. They trained together for over two years. Also, the astronauts, while in training, visit a lot of local (Houston and central Florida) schools. They speak to classes and spend a lot of time with the kids. All day today, there has been a steady stream of people, outside Johnson Space Center, bringing flowers, tieing ballons to the fence, and placing U.S. and Israel flags. A lot of the people are bringing their kids because the kids had met the astronauts.
Countless people die in automobile crashes every day. Those people are no less special, as individuals, than the seven astronauts. However, these astronauts represent so much more. They represent this country (and other countries). They also represent the careers and very best efforts of countless professionals. They represent the most intelligent and best educated of our society. They represent the most disciplined and goal oriented of society. They represent the hopes of countless people that, (like Imi said) an ordinary person can work hard and achieve extraordinary things.
Flags all around Houston are flying at half-mast. I hope the whole country takes, at least a little, time to remember.
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Texan said:
yes - Aerospace sucks sometimes... cyclical as it is - and the strength of Mother Earth, when we seek to "loose Her bounds" is awsomely humbling... what Sterling folks volunteer to take the risk... let us ALL pray that the transition to the next Consciousness was swift, and painless!
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