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re: Tonight, Texas A&M's campus will darken for Silver Taps
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:32 am to Pettifogger
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:32 am to Pettifogger
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there is a lot of significance built in to the TAMU version, and it sounds pretty planned to me. Now, it was planned 100 years ago, so that isn't a slight, but I think it was probably created with posterity in mind.
Um, how about just wanting to honor the fallen?
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to me, signifies that early TAMU people wanted to create an abundance of traditions to be carried forward.
Nah it's just something we started doing as a military college. Lots of other senior military colleges have their own twists on traditions too.
Doesn't mean we had this conspiracy to create oodles of traditions just for the sake of having them
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Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:40 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Um, how about just wanting to honor the fallen?
They're not mutually exclusive. I'll admit, this is a pretty significant tradition with some nice symbolism and I'm jealous of it, to some extent. But, while prior generations were certainly better at creating meaningful traditions than ours, I suspect this was well orchestrated with the intention of being repeated.
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