Message-ID: <21995275.1075854584567.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:36:00 -0800 (PST) From: lwbthemarine@bigplanet.com To: daphneco64@bigplanet.com, daphneco64@yahoo.com, jason.bass2@compaq.com, eric.bass@enron.com Subject: Fw: Aggie Gram Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "Larry W. Bass" <lwbthemarine@bigplanet.com> X-To: KATHY BASS <daphneco64@bigplanet.com>, kb <daphneco64@yahoo.com>, jason <jason.bass2@compaq.com>, eric preston bass <Eric.Bass@enron.com> X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Eric_Bass_Dec2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Bass-E X-FileName: ebass.nsf ? ----- Original Message ----- =20 From: Jack Rains =20 To: jmrtexas@swbell.net=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:20 PM Subject: FW: Aggie Gram ? ? Jack Rains ? The information contained in this message,? and attachment(s) if any, are= =20 intended for the addressee only and may not be reproduced or forwarded=20 without the express written permission of Jack Rains. If you have received= =20 this message in error return it unread to jmrtexas@swbell.net>immediately. ? Office:1300 Post Oak Blvd. Houston, Texas,? 77056 713 986 7133 voice 713 986 7100 fax email: jrains@lrmlaw.com (office) jmrtexas@swbell.net (home) Website: http://www.lrmlaw.com ? -----Original Message----- From: Jack Rains [mailto:jmrtexas@swbell.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: FW: Aggie Gram ? ? 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= =20 L. HEARD TIMOTHY D. KERLEE, Jr.????LUCAL J. KIMMEL???????????????????BRYAN A.=20 McCLAIN CHAD A. POWELL ??? ??? ??? JERRY D. SELF ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? NATHAN = S.=20 WEST An estimated 25,000 people stood in a driving rainstorm in temperatures of= =20 35 degrees at 2:42 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2000. They represented Aggies everywhe= re=20 in remembering the 12 Aggies who died and the 27 who were injured during t= he=20 40 minute candlelight memorial ceremony that marked the first anniversary = of=20 last year=01,s tragic Bonfire collapse.=20 In the center of the Polo Field stood a two-tiered white platform surround= ed=20 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= el=20 consisted of 12 maroon and white candles surrounding a black pipe in the= =20 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= ch=20 victim's name and their graduation year. =20 As the ceremony commenced at exactly 2:42 a.m., lights on the polo fields= =20 were turned off and the memorial flame was lighted. As the roll call was= =20 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= .=20 After bagpipes played =01&Amazing Grace," the ceremony ended as these word= s=20 sounded over the loudspeakers: "We will remember them."=20 Of special note, as the crowd began to disperse, a band of determined Aggi= es=20 climbed the platform and, in the slackening rain, lighted and then relight= ed=20 the maroon and white candles until suddenly for a small moment in time all= =20 12 burned brightly before the rains extinguished them. In Austin, the University of Texas at Austin Tower was darkened in respect= =20 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= =20 in the rain paying tribute to people they didn=01,t know, just because the= y=01,re=20 a part of the Aggie family.=018 ?