Unless you've been under a rock for the past few weeks, you most likely know what's been going on at my college, Texas A&M University. Since everything that's happened here at my college, I have seen loving support and concern from everywhere, and it touches me. However, there are some people who are either slow on the concept of sympathy or too busy being negative. This is to you.
Nag nag nag. We shouldn't burn all this wood, because it's bad for the environment and wastes trees. (Like you driving your card doesn't add to the environmental problems.) Nag nag nag. Get professionals to build it, instead of kids who don't know what they're doing. (Um, last I checked, we are adults, thank you very much.) Nag nag nag. Why are the seniors leaving $100 plus rings on a statue when they could be stolen? (Because most of those that died were not seniors and thus never got the chance to wear a real Aggie ring.) Nag nag nag. Discontinue the tradition, cause it's dumb and archaic. (So's the idea of war.) Nag nag nag. People died--shouldn't that be enough of a reason? (People die setting off fireworks. Do you want to get rid of the Fourth of July?) I could go on for a while, but I'm not going to.
First of all, this is not the time to point out the flaws of our system. Right now, I don't give one flying rat's arse what happened and took the lives of twelve of my fellow Aggies. My opinion is that this really isn't a stinking discussion topic. No one points out what went wrong when things like this happen. I didn't even like it when people argued why those boys went in and killed all those people in Columbine High School. When people die or are hurt, you don't go around nagging at us. It doesn't change a damn thing. Some things are not good debate topics, and this is one of those things.
Unlike my last rant, I'm going to make this one short and to the point. Nine out of every eight naysayers (and I meant what I typed) who are whining about what happened have no concept of what it means to be an Aggie. You don't understand that we are more than another campus. Hell, my mom moved to Texas cause she liked the idea of the Aggies. If an Aggie loses their senior ring, another Aggie who finds it will have it returned. An Aggie treats another Aggie like a member of his family. "We are the Aggies, the Aggies are we. True to each other, as Aggies can be." Yes, one of my friends asked how I could sing that after what has happened, but I still sing that song, cause all the crying and whining in the world won't bring back those twelve, and singing that makes me feel better.
I'll make my point this way. If you are not one of us, or do not understand the way we are, then you don't understand why we want our Bonfire next year. And until then, you are right. You don't get it. So don't jump on us. You have no right to.