V in the sky

[John Minnich]

I'm trying to write a modest little short story involving several themes:  The Challenger disaster, the 
Hindenburg disaster, and a ruptured appendix that happened to me shortly after the Challenger explosion in 
1986.  While trying to weave together these disparate materials, I remembered that image of two diverging 
smoke trails in the sky forming a big white 'V'.  Has anyone ever exploited this image allusively or is it all just 
too tasteless to consider?   Or was it really more of a 'Y'?