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From: elw@netexa.UUCP (E. L. Wiles)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: The Shuttle Aftermath
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 19:53:11 EST
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> The following is from a letter to the editor, Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise.
> 
>   My children shall never forget January 28, as they sat in their classroom
> and watched the coverage of the tragic shuttle explosion.  My 6-year-old was
> particularly affected.
>   You see, he has great appreciations of being a pilot, then on to become an
> astronaut.
>   His comment the other night is one I shall never forget!
>   He asked: "Mom, when I'm an astronaut and go up to space will I die quick
> too?"  I hope my response was reassuring for his young mind.
>   Time will tell, time will heal.
> 				-- KRIS McCLINTOCK
> 
> I wonder how many hundreds (thousands?) of kids are thinking the same thing?
> I hope time heals.
> 
> Matt Heffron
> -------

I've a young neice who intends to be an astronaut, when her mother heard that
the shuttle had blown up, she turned to the child and said, "Your never going
up in one of those!".  The child replied, "By the time I can go, they will
have all the problems fixed!".  Both mother and child remain adamant. :-)

			E. L. Wiles @ NetExpress, Inc. Virginia