New video on Texas A&M bonfire tragedy

My little brother was in the Corps of Cadets in the early nineties (he later became a Navy pilot). He helped build that damn stack of timber when he was there, like all the other guys in the Corps. After the incident our dad, a former pilot in the Army Air Corps during WWII, was furious with A&M for allowing such unsupervised stupidity (I don't think he realized the scale of this annual construction project at the time my brother was there). It was a terrible, senseless tragedy.

Screw this guy. Go there and experience the memorial but no need to make a big production. Take your phone camera, get whatever B roll you need for your followers, and narrate at home. It’s a memorial and should be considered a pastoral setting, not opportunity stream you walk around explaining loudly how everyone died.

And Christ…put on a real shirt. Has this guy ever left his house?

Poor form all the way around.

I'm not going to pretend that mistakes weren't made, but WTF is this arsehole?

It's only posted here so that sub-60 IQ troglodytes can mentally masurbate over the tragic death of some college students.

Congrats?

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It was supervised. I was there when bonfire was on campus. The problem was that it simply got too big (they would try to outdo previous bonfires each year) and they should have redesigned it to accommodate the changes. They honestly should have left it at its original height

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Not sure what you are talking about. Pretty sure height was limited to 55 feet for 25-30 years.

Also, record height was almost double that. Got too big so it was limited to 55 feet.

it's a great tradition and it should be resurrected but with safety protocols in place. Seems to have brought the students together.

RIP to those who perished Tragic on so many fronts.

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It was supervised. I was there when bonfire was on campus. The problem was that it simply got too big (they would try to outdo previous bonfires each year) and they should have redesigned it to accommodate the changes. They honestly should have left it at its original height

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I actually remember when they would talk about how beating the previous height record was such a big deal.

It does seem strange that the risk of going higher and higher was never really questioned. Perhaps it was internally... but the tradition had become too important?

Obviously the loss of life is the most horrible thing about what happened. But it was also sad that one of the most incredible traditions in CFB had to be curtailed.

For younger people who did not get to see it every year on TV. It was quite amazing. I imagine even more so in person.