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I will never forget this day.
I was a 4th grader, and they took us into the library so that we could watch the launch live. We were so excited, and cheered...then we got quiet, and I'm not sure anyone knew what was going on until some kid yelled out. Then everyone started to cry and there was much confusion. They took us out of the room quickly, and word spread like wildfire throughout our elementary school. When I got home, I watched the news but my mom made me turn it off because they kept showing the explosion over and over. I heard on the news that some of the astronauts had children, and that made me cry because I thought something bad would happen to my own parents. I remember that my parents talked it over with me for a few days.
This was the most traumatic event I had seen up to that point in my life. Still makes me sad.
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