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Texas A&M remembers fatal '99 bonfire collapse

November 18, 2009 By The Associated Press JUAN A. LOZANO (Associated Press Writer)

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — 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...

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