re: 33 years ago today. Where were you during the Challenger disaster?

Freshman year of law school at LSU. In the law library reading/studying between classes.

Paul Baier walked by the table where I was sitting, stopped and looked at me and said something like, "they are all gone."

I didn't know what he was talking about. I asked and he told me.

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In college.

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I was in class when it blew up. After class got in my car and it was on the radio. I remember sitting there listening and not believing what I was hearing.

At my grandmothers funeral. The hearse driver told us. Never forget it.

5th grade, I believe we were watching it live. If not live, a tv was brought in shortly after so we could watch what was going on.

Somewhere in my dad's balls.

In 10th grade in speech class.

I was at home watching. My wife had taken her 2nd grade class to Stennis Tracking Center for a field trip that day. They were promptly ushered out the door!

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I was at the Mr. Gatti's at Essen & Perkins.

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I used to work really close to there and we walked over for lunch one day, and a roach crawled down the wall next to us. I picked up my stuff and walked out and left everyone I was with without a word and never went back. idk how that place survived and Mccallisters went out of business.

I don't remember seeing the explosion, but I remember it being a huge deal. I was in the 2nd grade and every boy you asked wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. I remember there being TV specials trying to help the kids cope with this.