I have written about the Silent Wings Museum before. On February 1, 2013, there was a remembrance reception at the Silent Wings Museum, opening the Columbia Exhibit http://www.silentwingsmuseum.com/specEvents/allSpecEvents.aspx. Because my Friday afternoons at work have become somewhat inflexible, I did not have the opportunity to attend this reception, although I would have liked to do so.
However, today, I went to see the Columbia Exhibit. It was subdued but gave information about Willie McCool and Rick Husband, both of whom have Lubbock ties, and both of whom perished in the Columbia disintegration.
Willie McCool graduated from Coronado High School. There is a statue of him in Huneke Park http://parks.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pk/willieMcCool.aspx in Lubbock Texas. http://today.ttu.edu/2013/02/a-fathers-pride-remembering-the-columbia-tragedy/ . A few years ago, on Memorial Day, I went to a Memorial Day service at the Lubbock War Memorial http://parks.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pk/specialParks.aspx. I walked over to the Willie McCool statue, and someone there told me the gentleman walking to his car was Willie McCool's father. I walked up to him, offered him condolences, and thanked him for his sacrifice. (I may have written about this before.)
Rich Husband http://sts107.com/crew/Husband/Husband.htm graduated from Texas Tech University. The exhibit at the Silent Wings Museum shows him doing a "guns up" pose in a shuttle photograph.
It is sad that Lubbock is blessed to have ties to two of the astronauts who perished in the Columbia tragedy 10 years ago. Sad.
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