30 Years Ago Today, Where Were You?

I will never forget that day. I was living and working in Clearwater FL. I was welding on low pressure air hedder pipes for a company that made water purifying systems. I was outside welding when the guy welding inside came out and said that the space shuttle had exploded. We all looked up in the sky and sure enough, there in front of our eyes was the plume of smoke in that Y pattern. The boss came out and told us all to stop working. He went and got a ladder and we all went on top of the roof of the building and watched for a while. I think we were up there for almost an hour. It was kind of surreal. Then he said "alright, I guess we better be gettin" back to work". I remember feeling sad because for the most part, me and eveyone else didn't even know that the space shuttle was launching that day, it had gotten so mundane that every one kind of forgot about it. It made everyone stop and think that day.