Photos of Events Since 1909 Texas A&M University students have
worked together each year to build a massive bonfire. In the
early morning hours of November 18, 1999, the stack collapsed,
killing twelve students and injuring Bonfire was cancelled that
year. It was to have been ignited on Thanksgiving evening as a
prelude to Texas A&M's November 26 morning football game with
The University of Texas. In Memory of those We Lost... Miranda
Denise Adams '02 Christopher D. Breen '96 Michael Stephen Ebanks
'03 Jeremy Richard Frampton '99 Jamie Lynn Hand '03 Christopher
Lee Heard '03 Timothy Doran Kerlee, Jr '03 Lucas John Kimmel '03
Bryan A. McClain '02 Chad A. Powell '03 Jerry Don Self '01
Nathan Scott West '02 From its inception as a scrap heap to the
more familiar and impressive stack of vertical logs, the Texas
Aggie Bonfire symbolized every Aggie's "burning desire" to beat
the University of Texas in football. Attracting between 30,000
and 70,000 people each year to watch it burn, Bonfire became a
symbol of the d