And at the same time, what we really had to try and do was set aside our own grief to take care of those kids. |
There was this big puff, this big ball of smoke, with the two trailing boosters. But because we didn't know what we were looking at, we didn't realize that big ball was the explosion . . . We were all just watching what we thought was a phase of a launch. |
We were so torn, because as adults, as teachers, we had grown up with the space program and knew that what had just happened was incredibly devastating. |