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re: 14 Years ago today, the darkest day in Aggie history
Posted on 11/18/13 at 5:53 pm to UMTigerRebel
Posted on 11/18/13 at 5:53 pm to UMTigerRebel
Thank you.
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Posted on 11/18/13 at 6:22 pm to EKG
Here
Just came home from a visit to the memorial with my cousin who was injured that day. We will never forget the 12 who passed on that day RIP.
Just came home from a visit to the memorial with my cousin who was injured that day. We will never forget the 12 who passed on that day RIP.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 6:32 pm to semotruman
My ring says 99.
Was down at northgate when it fell. The few days following are very foggy. We all walked around shocked. Class was strange. The game is vivid in my memory.
It was much like September 11th to aggies. There is a reason we don't joke about hurricane katrina or the tornado that hit alabama. Some things just hit close to home and are too important.
Was down at northgate when it fell. The few days following are very foggy. We all walked around shocked. Class was strange. The game is vivid in my memory.
It was much like September 11th to aggies. There is a reason we don't joke about hurricane katrina or the tornado that hit alabama. Some things just hit close to home and are too important.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 7:04 pm to Sig
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It was much like September 11th to aggies. There is a reason we don't joke about hurricane katrina or the tornado that hit alabama. Some things just hit close to home and are too important.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 7:14 pm to Sig
Subjects you don't touch, by school:
Texas A&M - Bonfire Accident
Virginia Tech - Shooting in 2010
LSU - Hurricane Katrina
Alabama - Tornado
Kent State - National Guard shooting
Texas - Charles Whitman and Bell Tower shooting
I know there are others
Texas A&M - Bonfire Accident
Virginia Tech - Shooting in 2010
LSU - Hurricane Katrina
Alabama - Tornado
Kent State - National Guard shooting
Texas - Charles Whitman and Bell Tower shooting
I know there are others
Posted on 11/18/13 at 7:27 pm to Sig
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it was much like September 11
No.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 7:27 pm to BrooksnDunn
You do understand that he said the mood around the campus was the same, not the actual castrophies right?
Posted on 11/18/13 at 7:32 pm to BrooksnDunn
You get that he was talking about how we felt about the tragic loss of life and not about the magnitude of the actual tragedy right?
Posted on 11/18/13 at 7:56 pm to BrooksnDunn
Emotionally it was more impactful to me, doesn't mean it was more significant in any way. I went to many Bonfires before school. I cut the logs and stacked them. I know what it was like to be 30 feet in the air on top of those logs in the middle of the night. It was something personal to me and to many Aggies because had I been Class of '00 instead of Class of '93 it may have been me up there.
It also was just a soul tearing. To know that your favorite tradition that the entire school was engaged in was gone was hard. To know my kids won't be able to work on Bonfire as I did and my father before me did was very sad. The school was changed forever by that event, it's a lot more like other schools now honestly than it was before.
September 11 was a huge event for the country and a larger event because of the loss of life and the larger impact on us all. Aggies cared an awful lot about that as well. I'm on the left in white.
It also was just a soul tearing. To know that your favorite tradition that the entire school was engaged in was gone was hard. To know my kids won't be able to work on Bonfire as I did and my father before me did was very sad. The school was changed forever by that event, it's a lot more like other schools now honestly than it was before.
September 11 was a huge event for the country and a larger event because of the loss of life and the larger impact on us all. Aggies cared an awful lot about that as well. I'm on the left in white.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:12 pm to aggressor
One of those killed graduated from the high school where I teach. He was a good kid and very much respected by students and teachers. God bless all those families.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:33 pm to bird35
Here ags. Sad sad day. We might hate each other, but nothing but love in this thread.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:34 pm to Hook Em Horns
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:38 pm to Hook Em Horns
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Here ags. Sad sad day. We might hate each other, but nothing but love in this thread.
Y'all stood tall that day and I will never forget it.
Respect
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:46 pm to Hook Em Horns
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:49 pm to Hook Em Horns
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:53 pm to Hook Em Horns
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Hook Em Horns
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:56 pm to CajunAggie08
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Looking the the placement of the change, it looks like people may have left a coin in the direction of where they're from as there are very few in the western part of the pole. The notches in the center pole point in the direction of the fallen students' hometowns.
It's nothing that specific, people just started leaving pennies out there. I was still in town when it started happening and never found anyone that could explain why. There was a brief movement to get people to stop since pennies stain the granite marker, but by that point it had been done twice which made it tradition. ;)
Posted on 11/18/13 at 8:58 pm to aggressor
Ok a couple of questions:
What is the significance of saying "here"? I saw that aggies did that in the comments of the youtube videos as well.
What actually caused the collapse? Wind? Faulty construction of the pyre?
Sorry for all those affected in the tragedy, a shame such a cool tradition had to end that way.
What is the significance of saying "here"? I saw that aggies did that in the comments of the youtube videos as well.
What actually caused the collapse? Wind? Faulty construction of the pyre?
Sorry for all those affected in the tragedy, a shame such a cool tradition had to end that way.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 9:00 pm to Hook Em Horns
You guys were a class act that day, thanks.
But for every other day we still hate you too.
But for every other day we still hate you too.
Posted on 11/18/13 at 9:01 pm to OBReb6
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What is the significance of saying "here"? I saw that aggies did that in the comments of the youtube videos as well.
We have a ceremony each year with a roll call for the deceased. People answer "here" when someone they knew's name is called. LINK )
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What actually caused the collapse? Wind? Faulty construction of the pyre?
See my post in the other thread : LINK
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