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Bill Crist ’73 says: I was a fish in Sqdn 4 the year we built the tallest Bonfire on record. I remember the bruises, the muscle pains, the cuts, the blisters, the pushups. It is all pale compared to the sacrifice our 12 brothers and sisters gave to our beloved school. Every Aggie Muster since that day I have said a "Here" for them. Their sacrifice is forever etched in our minds. Whether or not we ever see another official Bonfire does not matter; our traditions will survive. We are great. We are mighty. We are Texas Aggies. (November 5th, 2009 at 10:23am)

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Oscar Casares

Oscar Casares

Features

My father, who had grown up on a farm, used to talk about his family’s killing a pig for the tamales, but this was back in the twenties. (December 2005)

Columns | Miscellany

An exclusive excerpt from writer-at-large Oscar Casares's forthcoming first novel, Amigoland (August 2009)

Was January 20 really the dawn of a new and more inclusive age? (February 2009)

My father was passionate about lawn care. Me? Not so much. (December 2008)

I was a server at Pappasito’s for a week. It felt like a lifetime. (October 2007)

Race and racism at the state soccer championship. (November 2006)

My dog, Flaco, sleeps on a bed from Pottery Barn, gets three walks a day, and very nearly had his teeth cleaned for the princely sum of $208. What would my father say? (May 2006)

My father’s not-so-brief, happy career on horseback. (September 2005)

But not without some difficulty—even though I’m a third-generation Mexican American. (June 2005)

I still remember the moment I discovered that a world existed outside Brownsville. I’ve been trying to explore it ever since. (March 2005)

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