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I was 20 and a sophomore Engineering student in college. I was working in the produce department at a local grocery store here in Cincinnati. Our prep area was across from the employee lounge which had a TV in it. One of my co-workers was on break and screamed "Holy Crap". We asked what happened and his response was "I think Challenger just blew up". We didn't get a whole lot of work done after that.
When Columbia disintegrated, I was in a grad school class on Saturday morning and we were on a break when my friend's wife called him and told him to go watch the TV. He was a F-16 pilot in the USAF stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton at the time. The Prof cancelled the remaining portion of the morning class,
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