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Discussion: Wisconsin Senator Posts Photo Of Columbia Flight Crew For Challenger Shuttle Remembrance
Such a sad event. I had met Christa McAuliffe, been to her house. I bawled like a baby that day.
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Hard to believe it was 30 years ago! I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news, same with the Columbia disaster (4 days from exactly 13 years ago and, for the first time, breaking news read on line here on TPM).
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Oops!
Reagan said. āWe will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and āslipped the surly bonds of earthā to ātouch the face of God.āā
Iād like to take the opportunity to point out a statement like that would be mocked mercilessly today.
Me too. Both times. The video is still hard to watch.
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High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Iāve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovāring there
Iāve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of airā¦
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Iāve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew ā
And, while with silent lifting mind Iāve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
A video narrated with this poem was broadcast twice daily along with the National Anthem during many television stationās sign-on and sign-offs from the late 50s through the 60s here in the Midwest.
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Thatās it. Sounds like the orchestra Fred Ziv used on āSeahuntāā¦subtle.
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The world was a really a better place when we only had three channels and they went off air for the night.
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So, why is this news worthy? And I am not talking about the challenger disaster, but of the fact that the Senator posted teh wrong picture, which she promptly corrected. Why are you fellows so SHALLOW!
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I donāt think so ā at least with this particular phrase. Itās on so many hangar walls and it used to be standard fare in high school English classes that it just might still might touch people today.
Itās a Peggy Noonan eulogy. Much as I dislike her, I envy her speech-writing talent.
She wrote of having others in the White House try to add things like, āand reached out and touched everyoneā or some similar crap.
Another one she did for Reagan was āThe Boys of Pointe de Hocā for a D-Day anniversary.That was another gem.
Years ago one of my duties was to write speeches for a sr VP in a Fortune 1000 Co. He would pass my draft around,but accepted nearly no edits but mine and whatever he wanted to change.
He knew that no committee ever wrote a decent speech, or a novel or a poem or a play.
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Her tribute didnāt miss the mark as badly as the one offered by Trump.
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Well, give me some credit. I donāt know about the others, but I am very wide.
IMPEACH!!!1
One of those times āinternās faultā is actually believable.
Pshaw. Nobody would mix up the Founding Fathers with astronauts.
I wouldnāt say thatā¦My mind boggles to think what could be possible with factual and entertaining content filling every available digital channel without the crushing burden of producing profit over life and community-enhancing intellectual uplift.
The magnificent and newly available NYPL Digital collection offers great promise but on a landscape where many library and museum archives rot undigitized and unavailable. More, open access, how could it be bad, how could it stymie productivity?
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Iād like to think youāre right but Obama was mocked for shedding a tear over dead kindergarteners.
My cynicism has me in an incredible funk.
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Around Christmas time I started thinking about the possibilities of VR on education. ::please not porn::
Porn would be easier for you to findā¦
Check out the NYPL collectionā¦just type any thing into the search box, spin the wheel.
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