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From: Jack Rains =20
To: jmrtexas@swbell.net=20
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: FW: Aggie Gram

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-----Original  Message-----
From: Jack Rains  [mailto:jmrtexas@swbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:17  PM
Subject: FW: Aggie  Gram

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IN  LOVING MEMORY -- =01&WE WILL REMEMBER THEM=018

MIRANDA  D. ADAMS ??? ??? CHRISTOPHER D. BREEN  ??? ??? MICHAEL S.  EBANKS

JEREMY  R. FRAMPTON ??? JAMIE L. HAND ???  ??? ??? ??? ???  ??? CHRISTOPHER=
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L. HEARD

TIMOTHY  D. KERLEE, Jr.????LUCAL J.  KIMMEL???????????????????BRYAN  A.=20
McCLAIN

CHAD  A. POWELL ??? ??? ??? JERRY D. SELF  ??? ??? ??? ???  ??? ??? NATHAN =
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WEST

An estimated 25,000  people stood in a driving rainstorm in temperatures of=
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35 degrees at 2:42 a.m.  on Nov. 18, 2000. They represented Aggies everywhe=
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in remembering the 12  Aggies who died and the 27 who were injured during t=
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40 minute candlelight  memorial ceremony that marked the first anniversary =
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last year=01,s tragic  Bonfire collapse.=20

In the center of the  Polo Field stood a two-tiered white platform surround=
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by rows of maroon  chairs. The first level was lined with "pots," the=20
hardhats used by Aggies while  working on the Bonfire stack. The second lev=
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consisted of 12 maroon and white  candles surrounding a black pipe in the=
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center that when lighted produced the  memorial flame. Seated around the=20
platform, in 12 separate groups, were the  families of the 12 Aggies who=20
died. Behind each set of seats stood a 5- to  6-foot wood pillar listing ea=
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victim's name and their graduation year. =20

As the ceremony  commenced at exactly 2:42 a.m., lights on the polo fields=
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were turned off and  the memorial flame was lighted. As the roll call was=
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read over loud speakers for  each deceased Aggie, a single cannon salute=20
roared into the night. Due to the  heavy rains the candles were not lighted=
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After bagpipes played =01&Amazing Grace,"  the ceremony ended as these word=
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sounded over the loudspeakers: "We will  remember them."=20

Of special note, as  the crowd began to disperse, a band of determined Aggi=
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climbed the platform  and, in the slackening rain, lighted and then relight=
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the maroon and white  candles until suddenly for a small moment in time all=
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12 burned brightly before  the rains extinguished them.

In Austin, the  University of Texas at Austin Tower was darkened in respect=
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to the bonfire  victims on Friday night and remained so until Saturday=20
morning. The memorial  flame was extinguished at 8 p.m. Nov 19, the time, T=
im=20
Kerlee Jr., the last  victim died. Then a Corps of Cadets bugler sounded=20
Taps.=20

Carolyn Adams, the  mother of Miranda D. Adams simply said, =01&I don=01,t =
know of=20
any other place where  you can go out at 2:42 in the morning and see others=
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in the rain paying tribute  to people they didn=01,t know, just because the=
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a part of the Aggie  family.=018

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