That team was the epitome of what the Sweet 16 is all about. They had such an impact on all of Eastern Kentucky. It's remembered for so long because all they had going for them other than work was that state championship.

He took the loss, understood the times, and went on about his business.

...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.

There was this big puff, this big ball of smoke, with the two trailing boosters. But because we didn't know what we were looking at, we didn't realize that big ball was the explosion . . . We were all just watching what we thought was a phase of a launch.

And at the same time, what we really had to try and do was set aside our own grief to take care of those kids.

We were so torn, because as adults, as teachers, we had grown up with the space program and knew that what had just happened was incredibly devastating.