Texas A&M remembers fatal '99 bonfire collapse
Source: google.com Posted By: Valerie M...5515 days ago
A somber candlelight vigil marked by both silence and song commemorated the 10th anniversary early Wednesday of a bonfire collapse that killed 12 people at Texas A&M University.
More than 3,000 people cupping candles that flickered in the cold morning air gathered at the collapse site on campus at 2:42 a.m. — the exact time of the Nov. 18, 1999 accident that also injured 27 people.
Current and former students, victims' families and others filled the grassy hills where a concrete and metal circular....