allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (02/11/86)
Expires: Quoted from <1641@shark.UUCP> ["Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund"], by galenr@shark.UUCP (Galen Redfield)... +--------------- | Sure they did. They didn't care if anyone even noticed. They did it for | totally selfless reasons. They didn't think it would be heroic, exciting, or | interesting. They weren't even thinking about succeeding. They just wanted | to pursue the common dream of all mankind. (I did not realize that starving | people in Ethiopia wanted to explore. Thanks for pointing that out, Dave.) +--------------- Oh, did those beastly Shuttle crewmembers ruin your day by becoming conspicuous instead of staying nice and quiet and getting in the media and causing people to set up a trust fund so their kids can become conspicuous and get in the media and generally make you look at the real world? May I remind *you* that America is made of all kinds? If you want your country to feel terrible that our system is such that we would give such coverage to such a miniscule event as the explosion of a Space Shuttle with the first ``average person'' (i.e. not a Senator or an astronaut) as crewmember, then move the h*ll out of the U.S., where people are *allowed* to have compassion. Not that they're forced, just don't try to tell those of us who *do* how wrong we simply MUST be, in order to be what you require us to be. Followups of this message go to net.flame. I probably should have held back, but I get a little sick and tired of hearing people tell me how I'm supposed to think, feel, and act about everything. One of those terrible people who feel that the people who were killed in the Shuttle explosion actually *deserve* some memorial from We, The People, --Brandon -- In mid-winter, all of us Midwesterners would *love* a taste of California... (r-r-r-rumble) (SHA-A-KE!!!) ...but not *that* badly! decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNET ncoast!tdi2!brandon (ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St. #A1-105, Mentor, OH 44060 Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 MCI MAIL BALLBERY (part-time)