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(From washingtonpost.com)
Byline: Ali Velshi
As her first-period class began yesterday, Arlington art teacher Denise Phalan quietly spoke to her students about one of Yorktown High School's most famous graduates, astronaut David M. Brown. Phalan had designed the flag that Brown took into space with him aboard the shuttle Columbia. "Thirty years ago, he was probably sitting in the same seat you are sitting in now," she said. The nation continues to mourn the deaths of Brown and Columbia's six other crew members, but the tragedy took on deeply personal meaning in schools with ongoing connections to the astronauts and the space program. "Why couldn't he [Ilan Ramon] get out of the shuttle?" asked Nechama Zaks, 11, a student at the Hebrew Day School in Silver Spring.…