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re: Aggies, today we think of you
Posted on 11/18/15 at 11:43 am to Dawgsontop34
Posted on 11/18/15 at 11:43 am to Dawgsontop34
Wow. This is really heartwarming DOT.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 11:48 am to Dawgsontop34
Why would anyone downvote this?
Posted on 11/18/15 at 11:53 am to 4th and 1
frick the person downvoting
Posted on 11/18/15 at 11:54 am to 4th and 1
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Why would anyone downvote this?
Terrorists walk among us.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 12:03 pm to p_bubel
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I was on campus that night, that's not something I'll ever forget.
Not to shite on the sentiment of your post, but the pic isn't really applicable to this '99 bonfire thread. Kind of misleading for those that aren't familiar.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 12:34 pm to Dawgsontop34
Whoever down voted you are awful. This is about college students that lost their lives
Posted on 11/18/15 at 12:39 pm to Dawgsontop34
Here.
And thanks, Dawgsontop34.
And thanks, Dawgsontop34.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 1:14 pm to Dawgsontop34
Thanks for this, one more reason I love the SEC. We were some school from afar to most of you then and we appreciate your understanding.
For me it is still an open wound that will never heal. Bonfire was THE event on the A&M campus, it is hard to overstate it. Thousands of students worked for months building it. Every part of the school from Corps to Frats to GDI's picked up an axe and helped move logs. It was 10,000 trees cut down by hand with axes and moved to the site where they were cleaned up and put in to place. The size and scope of the project was incredible and it was the true unifying event for all Aggies. Watching it burn after building it for months was always very emotional. My Senior Year my outfit in the Corps got the gameball from coach Slocum just as Bonfire was lit and ran 3 laps around Bonfire before starting a relay run for the 93 mile relay run to deliver it to Austin.
I remember hearing the news that morning on the radio as I was several years out of school at the time. I just couldn't believe it. Bonfire had fallen before but it was always something they could see coming and fell gradually, the concept of such a catastrophic failure with no real warning was incomprehensible. Seeing the images of the bodies and the injured students were haunting and gut wrenching. This probably will sound wrong to many but it hit me harder and certainly more personally than 9/11.
At the same time the way the campus rallied was also incredibly inspiring. The outpouring of support was amazing. I remember going to the memorial the night Bonfire was scheduled to burn and walking in with my old outfit from the Corps which had lost one of its members in the collapse. I remember going to the blood bank in Austin to donate and having to wait over an hour because of the huge line of primarily UT students who were lined up waiting to give and do whatever they could.
Then the game. The campus was still reeling and lost but we had the big game with Texas where they were #5 coming in to Kyle. They released doves before the game. The Texas band played "Amazing Grace" followed by "Taps" at halftime and lowered their own flags and replaced them with Texas flags. Still makes me tear up Then of course the game came down to the last drive where the Aggies strip sacked the Texas QB and Brian Gamble recovered with one of the most iconic pictures in Aggie football history.
The open wound is that it will never be the same. Bonfire eventually came back as an off campus shadow of what it was, still a nice event but nothing like before. A generation of Aggies have grown to never even know Bonfire except in what they have heard or seen in old videos. I was only able to even go to the Bonfire Memorial a couple of years ago as it was just too painful and it is an amazing monument.
For me it is still an open wound that will never heal. Bonfire was THE event on the A&M campus, it is hard to overstate it. Thousands of students worked for months building it. Every part of the school from Corps to Frats to GDI's picked up an axe and helped move logs. It was 10,000 trees cut down by hand with axes and moved to the site where they were cleaned up and put in to place. The size and scope of the project was incredible and it was the true unifying event for all Aggies. Watching it burn after building it for months was always very emotional. My Senior Year my outfit in the Corps got the gameball from coach Slocum just as Bonfire was lit and ran 3 laps around Bonfire before starting a relay run for the 93 mile relay run to deliver it to Austin.
I remember hearing the news that morning on the radio as I was several years out of school at the time. I just couldn't believe it. Bonfire had fallen before but it was always something they could see coming and fell gradually, the concept of such a catastrophic failure with no real warning was incomprehensible. Seeing the images of the bodies and the injured students were haunting and gut wrenching. This probably will sound wrong to many but it hit me harder and certainly more personally than 9/11.
At the same time the way the campus rallied was also incredibly inspiring. The outpouring of support was amazing. I remember going to the memorial the night Bonfire was scheduled to burn and walking in with my old outfit from the Corps which had lost one of its members in the collapse. I remember going to the blood bank in Austin to donate and having to wait over an hour because of the huge line of primarily UT students who were lined up waiting to give and do whatever they could.
Then the game. The campus was still reeling and lost but we had the big game with Texas where they were #5 coming in to Kyle. They released doves before the game. The Texas band played "Amazing Grace" followed by "Taps" at halftime and lowered their own flags and replaced them with Texas flags. Still makes me tear up Then of course the game came down to the last drive where the Aggies strip sacked the Texas QB and Brian Gamble recovered with one of the most iconic pictures in Aggie football history.
The open wound is that it will never be the same. Bonfire eventually came back as an off campus shadow of what it was, still a nice event but nothing like before. A generation of Aggies have grown to never even know Bonfire except in what they have heard or seen in old videos. I was only able to even go to the Bonfire Memorial a couple of years ago as it was just too painful and it is an amazing monument.
This post was edited on 11/18/15 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 11/18/15 at 4:00 pm to aggressor
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I just couldn't believe it
Still, I don't want to believe it but it did.
It still causes this old ag to tear up.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 4:25 pm to Masterag
As a Texas Tiger growing up in Sugar Land and living in College Station for 10 years until I retired last year, I do honor this day for all of my Aggie friends and relatives. This is the one day which our rivalries stop and we remember those who lost their lives in the tragedy.
Here.
Here.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 4:36 pm to aggressor
This was Kyle Field the night before the game.
The football team helped clear logs
Our rivals playing amazing grace at halftime
Crazy how everyone comes together in a tragedy.
This post was edited on 11/18/15 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 11/18/15 at 5:13 pm to Farmer1906
What is "Here" referring too?
Posted on 11/18/15 at 5:14 pm to Patton
quote:Aggie roll call. One of their most solemn and sacred traditions.
What is "Here" referring too?
Posted on 11/18/15 at 5:29 pm to Dawgsontop34
I can't believe it was that long ago.
What a shock and tragedy that was.
RIP.
What a shock and tragedy that was.
RIP.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 5:44 pm to Patton
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What is "Here" referring too?
It's a Muster related tradition for honoring the dead.
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Aggie Muster is a time-honored tradition at Texas A&M University which celebrates the camaraderie of the school while remembering the lives of Aggies who have died, specifically those in the past year. Muster officially began on April 21, 1922 as a day for remembrance of fellow Aggies. Muster ceremonies today take place in approximately 320 locations globally. The largest muster ceremony occurs in Reed Arena, on the Texas A&M campus. The "Roll Call for the Absent" commemorates Aggies, alumni and current students, who died that year. Aggies light candles, and friends and families of Aggies who died that year answer “here” when the name of their loved one is “called”.
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