Grief along the Columbia Debris Trail
By AAN Staff
february 4, 2003 09:40 am
As the nation
weathers another
space-shuttle
tragedy, Dallas Observer columnist Jim
Schutze
traveled the debris
trail this weekend,
tracing not only the doomed spacecraft's final
trajectory, but the many "Last Rites" offered by the
people of east Texas. "There's chunks of it on my dad's ranch," an excited man announces in a diner. Schutze follows them and others to look at debris from outer space, a chase first exciting and then grim when body parts are found along the Louisiana border.