This is a radar track out of Lake Charles, Lousiana.
It shows the debris plume of the Space Shuttle Columbia just after it zoomed over my family’s cattle ranch in Deep East Texas (the river down the middle of the picture is the Lousiana line).
The noise was so loud and went on for so long that my 82-year old grandmother (running the ranch single-handedly) thought it might be the end of the world.
That was two years ago today.
REMEMBER THE TRAGEDY.
WATCH THE LOOP.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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