Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia,net.sf-lovers,net.followup Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund Message-ID: <505@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 18:33:32 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.505 Posted: Mon Feb 3 18:33:32 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Feb-86 04:22:15 EST References: <221@hadron.UUCP> <325@lifia.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 35 Xref: utcs net.space:4975 net.columbia:1858 net.followup:5543 In article <325@lifia.UUCP> felix@lifia.UUCP (Francois Felix INGRAND) writes: >In article <221@hadron.UUCP> klr@hadron.UUCP writes: >> >> A trust fund has been established by the American Security >> Bank in Washington DC. The funds gathered are to be used >> to provide financial assistance to the children of the 7 >> astronauts killed in the explosion of the space shuttle. > >Is the Social Budget of USA so poor that American people must create a fund >for the astronauts' children? > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Francois Felix INGRAND (-: Pourquoi tant de haine... :-( \ | / [flame on, 104%] The shape of our `Social Budget' is completely irrelevant to the creation of a fund for the families of deceased astronauts. They sacrificed their private lives just to pursue the common dream of all mankind to explore; in the end they parted with much more than their privacy and it just so happens that some of us who remain earthbound feel the need to thank the unseen families behind our most visible heroes. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with such things, Monsieur Ingrand, but here in the United States we like to take care of our own. -dave the Dream is Alive -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "They were the elite, the vanguard of progress. They would take mankind to the heights...and perhaps beyond." -Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End