Aggies debate bonfire decade after deadly collapse
Source: chron.com Posted By: Faye C...5516 days ago
Texas A&M University's reverence for tradition lured Tim Kerlee Jr. to the storied campus.
Kerlee, from Germantown, Tenn., had visited 21 schools but knew A&M was for him the moment he stepped on campus, said his mother, Janice Kerlee.
"He wrote me an e-mail one time. He was talking about Silver Taps (a monthly tradition where lifelong Aggies who died the previous month are honored) and how moved he was by the fact that all these students were out there and didn't even know that person but....