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In Memory
We here at LOADSTAR mourn the deaths
of the crew members of the space
shuttle CHALLENGER. Like other
Americans, we have watched the
CHALLENGER's final launch a hundred
times, only to be shocked once more by
the sudden ball of flame, the SRB's
careening in their mindless paths back
to earth.
Chances are that these images will
never fade in the course of our
lifetimes, that each of us will recall
exactly where we were when we heard
that the shuttle had exploded.
CHALLENGER will become this
generation's Kennedy assasination,
always a part of our inner lives.
This is as it should be, for each
member of the CHALLENGER's crew
exemplified all that can be good and
right in men when dreams are coupled
with courage. We mourn the loss of
Gregory B. Jarvis; Christa McAuliffe;
Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka;
Judith A. Resnick; Francis R. Scobee;
and Michael J. Smith.
Our grief is, in a sense, the final
legacy of the CHALLENGER crew, for
their deaths shock us into an
awareness of the ideals they lived
for, ideals that we so often forget
in our day to day lives. Their
deaths give new life to ancient
dreams of discovery, ancient ideals
of courage.
In a complacent and cynical world,
words like courage may now regain
their meaning. And we may no longer
think of heroes as figures of myth
now that we've glimpsed what it takes
to ride a pillar of fire into the
sky.
Now we know. Something died in each
of us that January morning, nine miles
above the Cape. But something else
essential, something long forgotten,
was reborn.