id like to know what bonfire was like. as a first gen ag, class of 2007, id just like to know some stories.

I'm willing to bet that seniors didn't call themselves 'old ags'

Hey, I'm old and sore enough... so shut yer trap whippersnapper.

Now if only I could work on my *****ing and negativity, I'd be the whole package.

Have you been out to any Bonfire stuff since '02? You can find out what Bonfire is like first hand and get some back in 'Ol Army stories all at the same time.

Coker, what was Bonfire like before wood was invented?

I dunno, I've always had wood. Ask your Mom.

Scott Coker '92

!!!!!!

ahahahaha

Damn.

www.lew.justgotowned.com

oh my god! some of those pictures are awful!!!!

dude, i am a first gen, first aggie in my both of the extended sides of my family. dude, i was booing a&m for beating ou and cheering for t.u. when they beat us that year. the senior year before I came here. then i did a 180 when i realized i was going here. so no, i never even imagined going to see bonfire. Until now.

If you'd also like to know what Bonfire is like while finding out what Bonfire was like, check out Sudent Bonfire.

[This message has been edited by TexasRebel (edited 4/13/2007 7:59p).]

I never thought about it, but bonfire fell my sophmore year. So I guess my class was the last one to know bonfire. How depressing.

I'm not really sure it can be put into proper words. Bonfire was simply amazing. The entire campus came together to build the stack (there were a few protesting tree huggers, but not many). You could watch it come together for an entire semester before the burn the week of the tu game. Thousands upon thousands of students and former students would be at the burn site for yell practice - the band, the yell leaders, the team and coaches would all be there. Everyone would try to get as close as they could, but as soon as the torches went in, everyone would have to start backing up because of the heat it would put off.

Student bonfire captures many of the same aspects and feelings, but it is missing the comaraderie of being on campus and having the entire student body coming together for the burn. I miss the band being there.

We always took our kids, once we had them, and our oldest is a freshman at A&M now, worked on bonfire this past year and is a yellow pot for next year. When he went to "spend the night with the corp" he was the only person in the group he stayed with that had seen bonfire. He was absolutely thrilled to be a part of the cut and stack this past year and even more to be a part of the leadership next year.

To those who never worked on it, I don't know how it could be that meaningful. But to those of us who gave up weekends to cut trees for it and gave up sleep to stack it, the moment it caught fire was magic. You got chills thinking about all the effort and time it took to build it and all the friends you made and good times you had along the way. The morning after bonfire was over, it was like a friend had died. You knew it would be 9 months or so before you got to do it again, and you couldn't wait to get started. I won't ever forget walking out of the woods at the end of hard day knowing you had busted your ass all day, and for whatever reason, all the pains and aches felt strangely good as you sat in the shower peeling away the tape off of your blistered hands.

I never could understand why I loved it so much back then, and it is damn hard to explain it now. I guess you just have to go out and experience it for yourself. But don't just go to watch it burn...go build it first...it will mean so much more when it burns.

bonfire was absolutely amazing--i loved walking down to campus with my dad and brothers to watch it burn, truly a magical experience, especially for a kid who love both A&M and fire---i still have my Bevo Buster pin from the '93 burn hanging on a bulletin board in my room. also that same year i lost an A&M football soooo if anyone picked it up let me know!!

[This message has been edited by wareagle044 (edited 4/26/2007 4:27p).]

It was one night of unity beyond any rally could put together: CTs, non-regs, Frat-rats, SBs, Geeks, and nobodys all came together and celebrated being an Aggie and the desire to beat tu. The amount of work involved to build it required everybody's effort and the rivalries that went on during build (guarding perimeter poles, DG then Walton loading etc.) did nothing but foster pride and unity within your outfit, group etc. Whatever differences we had within our groups was erased when it burned. My wife, a tessie, (that's OLD army) didn't begin to understand what it meant to be an Aggie until she saw bonfire burn. She understood it better when I took her to Muster which is the closest thing I can compare the specialness of Bonfire to.

http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=89576&page=1&forum_id=14

This really puts it into words, also note the comradarie that follows

http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=89576&page=1&forum_id=14

hth