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	Saturday, February 01, 2003

From Not a Fish - the blog of an Isreali Mom: And I really wanted to tell you my good news, but I’ve got this big lump in my throat that won’t go away. We had to turn the TV off, because Bish has to work and he couldn’t concentrate. This is fortunate because I’ve been crying all the time. How silly can you get? I don’t think anyone noticed. I read somewhere the other day that we don’t have any heroes any more, here in Israel. Whoever wrote this didn’t think about Ilan Ramon. Neither did I when I read it. We’re not very into heroes. Much too sophisticated and cynical for that sort of stuff, us. As if to spite us, and our snobby disdain of things like heroes, here we found ourselves with our very own real live hero. We were so proud. He took a bit of all of us up with him, when he went. Now that he’s not coming back down, what happens to that bit of all of us he took? Maybe that’s why we’re not into heroes. They always die and leave us hurting. * * * * 2:41:31 PM    comment []

From the National Weather service via the New York Times: Hours later, Doppler weather radar images from the National Weather Service in Shreveport, La., show the aftermath of the breakup of the shuttle Columbia. These images show the reflectivity, or size and density, of particles near the ground. The green cloud around Shreveport is normal ground clutter picked up by the radar. NEW YORK TIMES.   2:34:34 PM    comment []

The New York Times: SHUTTLE BREAKS UP Columbia, With Six Americans and Israeli, Disintegrates as It Descends Over Texas   What can one say? This is so tragic. Peter came upstairs this morning and said "There's been another tragedy." At this point, one just cringes when one hears those words.   Everything that I could say has already been said countless times in the past year and a half.   I feel so badly for the astronauts' families, Israel, India, and NASA. This is such an emblematic tragedy. 2:30:09 PM    comment []

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