Beyond upsetting. Before the Columbia took off 16 days ago, I thought 'It's kind of eerie how Columbia and Challenger start with the same letter and lift off at the same time of year, 17 years apart. Wouldn't it be even stranger is the Columbia blew up just like the Challenger did?' And I come home from shopping for groceries with Mum, and on the TV, there is breaking news on every channel.

At first I thought that the president had been shot down from his plane since they were talking about the president so much. I saw the fireball descend from the sky and I begin to cry. All 7 people on board are dead.

Texan’s have been saying that they went outside to watch the shuttle enter the atmosphere, and they saw multiple balls of fire come out of it. Then they heard seven or eight booms, and they knew something was wrong.

6 of the seven were married, and 5 had children.

I’m truly amazed at how they’re dwelling on how one guy was an Israeli. Can people be more shallow?

God bless every last one.