While we were visiting this cemetery to photograph this tombstone, a bald eagle flew up from the Merrimack River and flew over the cemetery and landed in the trees behind the gravestones. I thought it was very appropriate for the moments after we were thinking about Christa McAuliffe and the other Challenger astronauts.
S. CHRISTA McAULIFFE
SEPTEMBER 2, 1948 - JANUARY 28, 1986
WIFE MOTHER TEACHER
PIONEER WOMAN
CREW MEMBER, SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER
AMERICA'S FIRST ORDINARY CITIZEN TO VENTURE
TOWARD SPACE
SHE HELPED PEOPLE. SHE LAUGHED. SHE LOVED AND IS LOVED. SHE APPRECIATED THE WORLD'S
NATURAL BEAUTY. SHE WAS CURIOUS AND SOUGHT TO LEARN WHO WE ARE AND WHAT
THE UNIVERSE IS ABOUT. SHE RELIED ON HER OWN JUDGEMENT AND MORAL COURAGE
TO DO RIGHT. SHE CARED ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF HER FELLOW MAN. SHE TRIED
TO PROTECT OUR SPACESHIP EARTH. SHE TAUGHT HER CHILDREN TO DO THE SAME.
Click here for a 2010 blog post about my memories of this day in 1986:
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To Cite/Link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Christa McAuliffe - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 28, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/christa-mcauliffe-tombstone-tuesday.html: accessed [access date]).
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