it will continue to infect the legal system up and until the very second it stops helping prosecutors get convictions at any cost and without regard for whether the defendant is actually guilty
That said, here is my memory of that event.
4th grade. We are brought into a different room, possibly the library. A TV is wheeled in on one of those multi-level carts. It's one of those big box TVs because it is the 80s.
History, we are told, is being made. On goes the TV. Up goes the shuttle...
Please use ALT text. Please. Every time you post an image.
The entire point of your skeet is in the image. And plenty of people breezed right by it because they can't read it.
Please ALT always.
Thank you.
It completely applies to them. An expert I once heard on Radio Lab describes it as our recreating the memory every time we remember it. The act of memory can introduce errors that can completely change it.
I once got in an argument with someone on Facebook who insisted the Watergate break-in occurred in 1969, not 1972.
A simple Google search would have resolved things, but the person in question was absolutely insistent. Makes me worry about stuff that is less easy to verify.
What I remember is likely accurate by sheer nature of its banality: the launch happened while my second grade class was out at recess, and we got told what happened by our very somber teacher after we went back into the classroom.
I remember feeling quietly upset, but we didn't see it live and so a lot of it didn't sink in until later. Then I saw pretty much every damn bit of footage they released and it's still seared into my brain.
