I don’t know that I even knew a launch was scheduled for that day. They had become commonplace. We didn’t watch them in science classes, or have announcements.

I remember one of my classmates going around asking people “Did you remember to place the bomb?”, and no one even bothered to ask what he was on about.

They didn’t tell us anything had happened.

Our dog got lonely during the day, so we left the television on for him.

When I got home, the explosion was running on a loop on television. That was how I found out.