re: Tonight, Texas A&M's campus will darken for Silver Taps

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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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I get what you're saying but do you have similar observations about say the Naval Academy?

Aggie traditions aren't nearly so "weird" compared to other schools that for most of their existence were all male with a compulsory military component.

Definitely weird relative to other SEC schools that have long been coed and not defined as much by military service but as another poster said this particular tradition is "good weird".