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The tradition affects many, last ceremony of the semester tonight By John Salerno THE BATTALION Last year, a freshman passed away during the first week of classes and was honored at Silver Taps in October. During the ceremony, a train passed through town and blared throughout the entire playing of “Silver Taps” by the buglers. “I was very upset,” said J. Alan Goddard, roll-call sub-chair for Muster and a senior meteorology major. “The Silver Taps coordinator turned to the Silver Taps TONIGHT 10:30 P. M . ACADEMIC PLAZA family and said ‘Lm sorry, but there’s nothing we can do about it.’ But the mother of the student who had passed away said ‘No, no, you don’t under stand. Kyle collected trains and that was his way of saying goodbye.’ ” Silver Taps touches families and stu dents. “I think it’s good,” Goddard said, “because when you see the student body surrounding you, you can really feel that sense of Aggie spirit and fam ily, and I think it helps the families when they experience that.” The first Silver Taps was in 1898 and honored Lawrence Sullivan Ross, then- president of Texas A&M. According to the Traditions Council, a small card with the deceased student’s name, class, major and date of birth is placed as a notice at the base of the academic flagpole. “My job last year was to compile the campus roll call,” Goddard said. “All of the honorees at Silver Taps are on the roll call, and at each Silver Taps I went to the Forsyth [Center], met the families (of the deceased students), let them know who I was and what Silver Taps was if they weren’t familiar with it by then. I would also tell them that their son or daughter would be honored at the campus Muster on April 21. Then I accompanied them with their friends and family to the Sul Ross statue for Silver Taps.” Goddard said meeting the families and having the opportunity to speak with them gave him the chance to hear stories like the preceding. But he also said it was sometimes difficult to speak with the families so soon after the death of a loved one. “With Silver Taps, it’s really current and obviously the students have passed away just in the past month,” Goddard said. “So we just check in and ask the student coordinator when is a good time to talk with the family. At that point, the communication for Muster really starts. 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