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20 years ago.......

SuBee

master brummie
A ball of smoke way up high
'Is it really happening?' you can hear thoughts cry
Heads raised then dropped in disbelief
'Is it normal?'......... searching for some relief
of the sight just seen. There was a deafening hush
the panicing thoughts, but there was no rush
to know the truth, and feel the pain,
as the picture unfolded, no words to explain
Ordinary people making history in space
Lives lost without a trace
No body to mourn, yet death had been seen
in the erruption of a powerful machine
A seal became brittle allowing flames to escape
Igniting fuel that led to the tragic rape
of innocent lives.They knew the risks that lay ahead
28/1/86 .............seven people.........all dead

RIP
 
I remember it clearly, a truly sad day when seven more Heroes and Heroines were added to the terrible price we pay for the progress of mankind

And somewhere does a little girl,
Take her mothers hand..
As she tries to find an answer for what she doesn't understand.
When she asks in all her innocence.
To a simple question 'Why'
If already up in Heaven,
Where do Spacemen go to die?
 
Quite apt Les.............as you will recall the lady astronaut was a teacher...and her pupils, then 8 years old, watched the lift off..............when reading some of their memories on the net today, it was interesting to read that at the time (of course they are 28 now), they knew exactly what the launch into orbit was going to be like, they had gone over it in class, step by step.
It was the children who first knew that something was tragically wrong, when the adults were still wondering if everything was ok. When the children turned around they saw that the family members of the nominated 'civilian' astronauts had been taken away - and their worst fears were realised
 
Men and women will always try and reach the Final Frontier.
Even to the giving their lives. We are born to Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.
 
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