Among those who will attend are representatives of the Texas Rangers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and local law enforcement and fire and rescue departments. A private firm has been hired to conduct soil tests where the bonfire stack fell. Other information will be collected by independent and university engineers. Mr. Bush said he hopes the bonfire can continue. At the site of the bonfire on the north side of campus, his classmates left a memorial to the former Corps of Cadets member.
Fish is the term for freshmen.
Eight of the students killed were active or former cadets, and several were engineering students. Mr. Breen was a 1997 graduate of the university. Jason Heard said his brother had decided the week before he was killed to enlist in the Marines and be in the reserves because he couldn't wait until after graduation. Mr. Heard's drill instructor recalled the student's pranks, including filling boots with shaving cream and smearing creamy peanut butter on the telephone. Others remembered his love of hunting and fishing.