[KappaKittyCat]

I was four when the Challenger exploded. I was sitting on the living room floor playing with Legos, my mother was ironing, and we were watching the launch together. It exploded and I remember laughing and clapping and saying, "Ooh, look, Mommy, pretty!" because the cloud was shaped like a goose. My mother told me to be quiet, that it wasn't funny because a lot of people had just died. That's the first time I ever remember seeing my mother cry.

There was a schoolteacher on the Challenger. My mother is a schoolteacher. I wonder whether that had anything to do with it.