Beyond words...

[alexpgp]

Galina called a few minutes ago to relay the news that Shuttle Columbia was lost during re-entry. I ran down to the coffee shop to see if I could pick up some news on the radio... most stations were carrying on as usual, but one station did carry the grim news.

I cried when the radio confirmed what Galina'd said. Like a baby. I'd worked, briefly, with a couple of the crew members back when I was full-time in Houston. Four of Columbia's crew were rookies, including the Israeli.

RIP

Comments

[velocity.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry Alex. I know this hits pretty close to home for you.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Cheers...

[veryty.livejournal.com]

I didn't mention when I wrote my own LJ entry about this (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=deborahj&itemid=34318) earlier, that I wept. Eyes kept brimming over (as now, again.)

Too sad and moved for [more] words now. But just so you'll know, I did think of you (knowing of your past work with the Space Program) as I sat down to log onto LJ.

Reading your Entry, knowing that this mattered and that others care and are present (however distant they may be) at this moment, helps ease the awful sense of human helplessness.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I shall have to answer this in an entry.

Cheers...

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I have no words.

[ijon.livejournal.com]

I sympathize.

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Alex, I thought of you after I got my brain out of stun mode. I'm sorry. It's very sad.