..... I remember plain as day sitting in 3rd grade class when office personnel came and got a girl out of our class. We didn't know what was about, but we knew it wasn't good, especially from the tone of the people that came to get her. The teacher told us what happened when she returned to the class. That hit very close to home. There were a lot of Naval personnel living in the Charleston area back then. We had a Navy Yard and shipyard as well as a brand spanking new 'Naval Weapon's Station' where they loaded 'Polaris' missiles onto submarines. The base was huge, with a lot of forests. It's practically shut down, but you can look on Google Earth and see the areas where they kept the missiles.
Either disaster, though, represents the loss of a lot of good men in a short period of time.