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to see you on Tuesday!
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visit the children in the spring,
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them for gifts,” Hickman said,
Memorial
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country of China,” Shemwell said.
The stones will be placed in a 65-foot
foundation to ensure stability, Shemwell said.
The Bonfire Memorial design consists of
a large ring containing 12 portals to com
memorate each of the Aggies who were
killed in the Bonfire collapse.
The memorial, which will cost an esti
mated $5 million, involves four different
contracts, said David Godbey, assistant
director of the physical plant. Each is a
major piece of the memorial project.
The architectural engineering design
contract, as well as the bronzing contract,
are with Overland Partners, Inc. from San
Antonio.
“It is a huge privilege to be involved with
this and work for a place that means so
much,” said Shemwell, Class of 1982.
Overland Partners will bronze the door
ways and work closely with the families of
the 12 students killed in the Bonfire col
lapse, Shemwell said. The families have the
opportunity to help personalize each door
way by providing information and pictures
of the students.
The other contracts include one to pre
pare the stone and one general construction
contract with Madison Construction in
Bryan. Godbey said the general construc
tion contract will also focus on building the
visitor center, which will be a covered area
where visitors can go for shade. It will be
equipped with a lightning protection system
and will include bathrooms.
Construction of the Bonfire Memorial is
not expected to hinder traffic, said Martha
Raney, administrative assistant in the
Bonfire Memorial office.
“The Polo Fields are so large,” she said.
“1 don’t imagine that there would be any
long term traffic problems.”
She said parking lot 51, the yellow 1«
near the Polo Fields, will be extendedlf
create more space for future visitors
Raney said the memorial’s
outer ring, also known as the Spirit I
will be composed of 27 granite blocks
Though the Bonfire Memorial is ex
ed to be finished by Nov. 18, 2004. the
anniversary of the Bonfire
Shemwell said he hopes construction
complete before then.
“We need to allow time for the landscap
to mature,” he said. “That would requirellfi
construction to be complete months tefei
November.”
Since the project is so detailed
involves so many people, Shemwell si
will continue be a great experience for hi®
“I feel like the effort is not unlike
effort for Bonfire,” he said. “If we dii
have all these people, we wouldn’t be aH
to do it.”
Crash
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L. Paul Bremer, the head of
the occupation in Iraq, repeated
demands that Syria and Iran pre
vent fighters from crossing their
borders into Iraq.
“They could do a much bet
ter job of helping us seal that
border and keeping terrorist out
of Iraq,” he told CNN. The
“enemies of freedom” in Iraq
“are using more sophisticated
techniques to attack our forces.”
U.S. officials have been
warning of the danger of shoul
der-fired missiles, thousands of
which are now scattered from
Saddam’s arsenals, and such
missiles are believed to have
downed two U.S. copters since
May 1. Those two crashes — of
smaller helicopters — wounded
only one American.
The loaded-down Chinook
was a dramatic new target. The
insurgents have been steadily
advancing in their weaponry,
first using homemade roadside
bombs, then rocket-fired
grenades in ambushes on
American patrols, and vehicles
stuffed with explosives and det
onated by suicide attackers.
In the fields south of
Fallujah, some villagers proudly
showed off blackened pieces of
the Chinook’s wreckage to
arriving reporters.
Though a few villagers tried
to help, many celebrated word
of the helicopter downing, as
well as a fresh attack on U.S.
soldiers in Fallujah itself. Two
American civilians working
under contract for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers were
killed and one was injured in the
explosion of a roadside bomb,
the military said.
“This was a new lesson from
the resistance, a lesson to the
greedy aggressors,” one
Fallujah resident, who would
not give his name, said of the
helicopter downing. “Th(
never be safe until they get
of our country,” he said of
Americans.
The downed copter was
of two Chinooks flying oi
formation from an air bas
Habbaniyah, about 10 miles
from the crash site, carryin!
troops to Baghdad on route fe
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The missiles seemed to
been fired from a palm |
about 500 yards away, 1
Ali, 21, said. At least oneh
Chinook, which came down ins
field in the farming village
Hasai, a few miles si
Fallujah, witnesses said.
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