“Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) members in Nacogdoches, Texas, have been assisting local emergency management officials and NASA to locate and catalog debris from the Columbia shuttle.” —Texas Amateurs Aid in Shuttle Debris Recovery, CataloguingNat’l Assoc. for Amataur Radio)

My wife and I were married in Dallas and honeymooned in south Texas, which included visits to Nacogdoches and the Houston Space Center. I teach about the Challenger disaster in my advanced tech writing class. I don’t have any deep thoughts or words of wisdom to offer… but I was watching CNN Saturday evening, and found the words of the Israeli ambassador to the US to be very moving. Thank you, ambassador Daniel Ayalon.