Bonfire memorial to be dedicated
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:48 am
Associated Press/The Dallas Morning News
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Thousands of people are expected in College Station Thursday for dedication of a memorial to victims of the Texas A&M bonfire collapse.
The Nov. 18, 1999, accident killed 12 Aggies and injured 27 others.
The $5 million granite and bronze memorial was built on the grassy field where the log pile came down.
An A&M commission blamed the collapse on flawed construction techniques and lack of adequate supervision of students assembling the stack.
The memorial's centerpiece is a circle of 12 rectangular arches, one for each person who died.
They are connected by 27 large stones -- symbolic of those injured.
The circle is made up of arches 16 feet tall and positioned so that each faces the hometown of a victim.
Within the granite arches are 12-foot bronze portals with a sculpted portrait and writings from or about each victim.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Thousands of people are expected in College Station Thursday for dedication of a memorial to victims of the Texas A&M bonfire collapse.
The Nov. 18, 1999, accident killed 12 Aggies and injured 27 others.
The $5 million granite and bronze memorial was built on the grassy field where the log pile came down.
An A&M commission blamed the collapse on flawed construction techniques and lack of adequate supervision of students assembling the stack.
The memorial's centerpiece is a circle of 12 rectangular arches, one for each person who died.
They are connected by 27 large stones -- symbolic of those injured.
The circle is made up of arches 16 feet tall and positioned so that each faces the hometown of a victim.
Within the granite arches are 12-foot bronze portals with a sculpted portrait and writings from or about each victim.