history

saw a beautiful shuttle launch this morning--one of the advantages of living just south of Cape Canaveral--also saw the Challenger in 1986--i was standing in a parking lot and saw the explosions and all the debris raining down--still, all my mind could do was register that something was different--the idea of something terribly catastrophic didn't even cross my mind until i heard a radio that someone had on--the NASA spokewoman said that there was an anomaly- i knew then that the shuttle was destroyed and everyone was gone--24 years ago and it's one of those memories that could have been yesterday-----

tonight, listening to two of my favorite songs--Winds of Change by Scorpions and Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones---songs that are completely different in style but both talk about history--the Berlin Wall coming down and things going on around it--i remember it well too and the thing i remember the most was that no one could believe it was actually happening--i had been in Germany a few years before that and an Mig 23 had actually flown across the border and through a lot of West Germany and we had scrambled two F15s with live ordnance (missiles and guns) to shoot it down--like Maverick (Tom Cruise) in TopGun, one of the F15 pilots had done an inverted identification of it--he had flown upside down, almost canopy to canopy with the Mig, who chose at that point to fly as low and fast as he could back to East Germay---of course, look in history books and that never happened--but it did

too much thinking tonight
peace
-will-