Silver Taps
Stephanie Cannon '06
November 30, 2015 9:18 AM
updated: December 1, 2015 9:58 AM
Silver Taps will be held Dec. 1 to honor the memory of Meera Marium Thomas '19, a pharmacy major from Carrollton, who died Oct. 23, and James “Jimmy” Douglas Pitcher '16, a senior sociology major from Irving, who died Oct. 19.
The campus will be darkened at 10:20 p.m. In the darkness, students, family and friends will silently gather in the plaza in front of the Academic Building. At 10:30 p.m., an honor guard from the Ross Volunteer Company will march across campus from the Corps of Cadets area to the plaza, where its members will fire three rifle volleys to honor the memory of these students. Buglers from the Aggie Band, unseen in the darkness, will play a special arrangement of “Taps.” The tolling of the Albritton Tower bells will signal the end of the ceremony.
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