Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Introduction (Sentences 1-5) Summary

Saddress of the Nation

  • Reagan addresses the nation, but he's no longer going to give his State of the Union Address because something really important/terrible has happened (pssst, he's talking about the Challenger disaster, a really bad space shuttle accident that killed seven people).
  • He declares the day is about being sad.
  • Ronald Reagan is sad. Nancy Reagan is sad. Everyone else is sad, too. The whole country is just really, really, sad. The personal is the national and vice-versa.