Giving blood was her way of showing support for her fellow Aggies, she said. The bonfire is built every year beginning in August in anticipation of the Aggies' Thanksgiving week game with archrival University of Texas. It is lit the night before the big showdown. I'm sure everyone had that kind of reaction, scared for their kids and sisters and friends. It's so sad this had to happen with bonfire.
Bonfire always brings everyone together.
All new Aggies, old Aggies and parents. Oliveira, who graduated from Carroll High School in 1998, said the tragedy is almost too much to handle for a student body still reeling from two other tragedies this semester. On Oct. 10, six students walking to a fraternity party near campus were killed by a pickup whose driver had fallen asleep. Everyone is depressed and we're just praying. It's just a loss that we feel so strongly.