re: Post patriotic stuff that happened at your school!

They had a friend who got arrested who happened to be a foreign exchange student.
He stole an American flag off out campus.

They wanted to protest for him by burning the flag.

I don't think he ever wanted to be in the back of a cop car so badly in his life but he sure loved them (the cops) at that time.

I'm sorry but a lot of y'all are hypocrites. I love America. Time recently spent in Europe has strengthened that belief that we are an amazing country and I would rather live nowhere else. But y'all, people have a right to protest. This isn't North Korea. And according to some of your posts, flag burning is not ok but disparaging the President of the United States is? To end on a positive note though, lots of you guys have shared some really awesome stuff!

Isn't it the nickname you gave to people that historically have owned you? I think they mostly hang out in Austin

Hey, they have the right to yell and protest and the anti protest have the right to protest their protest

Commissioning Ceremony


George HW Bush's Library


Military Appreciation




Honoring HW & again Military Appreciation

Wounded Warrior game

Torch coming into Sanford



C-17 Fly over

A little long but here goes...

April 21, 1942
World War II had the nation in a chokehold. In the fight against Japan, the small island of Corregidor in Manila Bay was the last of America's strongholds in the area. First-hand accounts published in the book Softly Call the Muster by John A. Adams, Jr. '73 tell how America's war strategy in the Pacific depended on the strength of Manila Bay and how Texas Aggie Brig. Gen. George F. Moore, Class of 1908, was one of the soldiers commissioned to defend it.

As the small island continued to be pummeled by artillery shells from Japanese planes, the only safe spot for American soldiers was the bombproof Malinta Tunnel. The 830-foot by 35-foot passageway used as headquarters, supply depot and makeshift hospital became the spot of Aggie legend.

It was April 21. Adams's book said Moore asked another Aggie, Maj. Tom Dooley '35, if they could get a list of the Aggies fighting at Corregidor. There were 27 Aggies on Corregidor that day.

"So, we had a roll call, and a muster is a roll call," Dooley was quoted as saying.

He sent word to one of the news correspondents reporting from the island, and the reporter wired the story back to the states. Aggies know the story. What was broadcast back to America which told the story of a little band of Aggies roaring and singing their defiance was a stretch of the reality. Artillery shells rained from the sky; historians say there is no way the Aggies were able to physically gather.

The article encouraged a war-weary nation. The story of Muster was told across the country, "which solidified one of the most meaningful traditions we have," said Marty Holmes '87, vice president of The Association.

April 21, 1946
It was Muster day in the Philippines once more. The boys who'd so quickly become men jumped in their jeeps, boarded boats and sailed the Pacific to stand at the mouth of the Malinta Tunnel.

With the war won and the Filipinos liberated from Japanese occupation in 1945, another duty remained. Muster again on the island of Corregidor, on "the Rock" where Aggies did the same in 1942 right through the Japanese Siege. Bunkered inside the Malinta Tunnel, most of those men of 1942 died or were taken prisoner when Corregidor fell to the Japanese.

They came from their respective posts in 1946 to Muster on Corregidor and honor those lives lost.

They used a bed sheet to improvise an Aggie flag and hung it over the Malinta Tunnel to stand at attention, all 128 of them, for The Spirit of Aggieland.

There's a photograph (above) of those men in front of their homemade flag. It's famous in Aggieland. When people think about the importance of Muster, for many they're reminded of that image, Holmes said. Their example reminds Aggies that Muster is more than an event, he said. "It's honoring those who have gone before us and made A&M what it is," he said.

During World War II, there were more officers from Texas A&M than from any other school and more than the combined total of the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy. "Aggies give so much for our country and represent our university so well. The fact that we've been given the opportunity to have a monument on Corregidor that represents our contributions to World War II and the Philippines is just great," Holmes said.

The idea for a monument first came from an Aggie in the Philippines, said Josh Reinbolt '99, director of former student programs at The Association and funding the project happened extremely quickly. "Everything that was needed was given by a few individuals and A&M Clubs," he said.

"Once an Aggie, always an Aggie," Reinbolt said. "We know that, because of Muster and because of the Aggie Spirit, you will always be remembered—you'll always have someone to say 'here' for you."

Here.

You're right. It is always interesting where people think when they say "that's they're rights" that they're saying they don't have the right be upset with the flag burning because it's his right to burn it, but they absolutely do. What they don't have the right to do (in my opinion) is create an unsafe environment and basically bully or scare that person into not being able to carry out his protest (so long as he's not harming others). And that's what makes America great. You shouldn't have to fear harm to your person just because you disagree. I get that we have a lot of ultra patriotic people, especially down south, but the right to burn the American flag (which I don't support but accept as free speech) is a representation of the true freedom of America. But no I don't think mobs should be formed with people threatening and screaming at someone over it.