On this day, 25 years ago-Challenger Shuttle Disaster

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I can now understand how old guys can talk about how they remember everything about where they were when JFK was killed.

It's an odd part of human nature. People die all the time, and as catastrophes go the Challenger was fairly minor. But when something is so public, so visible, it affects us much more deeply. Thousands are starving, or die in an earthquake somewhere, and I think "That's too bad. I wonder if I can do something". But one famous man is murdered, or seven complete strangers die on camera, and my heart stops, and I remember it for decades.

Just questioning my own attitudes, and wondering why we see things the way we do.