A video image of a helmet that dropped into a yard in Norwood Community, Texas from the space shuttle Columbia is seen Feb. 1, 2002. Many parts of the shuttle, along with human remains, were found in the area. NASA (news - web sites) officials later remov
WASHINGTON - President Bush bowed his head in church Sunday as a minister prayed for the victims of the lost space shuttle Columbia.
"God's heart is more heartbroken than our own, and I believe they're already resting," the Rev. Luis Leon said at St. John's Church near the White House.
Leon said the shuttle astronauts represented the explorer's spirit in every person. "Let us pray for that spirit to be kept alive in us," he said.
The minister said he had heard others saying that the shuttle's breakup was "God's way of getting back at us" for Bush's Iraq policies. "That's hokum. That's just garbage," Leon said.
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