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[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

ONLY SIX UNDEFEATED TEAMS REMAIN 💯

Repost if your team is still perfect 🙌

[Isaac @ikedr21]

After 40 hours of work, It is complete. Nearly 1800 Texas high schools on one map.
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[Military Arms @MAC_Arms]

When people like Joe Biden or Eric Swalwell tell you that to stand toe to toe with the feds you'll need F16's or nukes and that rifles are useless, remind them of the Bundy Ranch in 2014.

[Texas A&M Baseball @AggieBaseball]

Let’s finish the job.

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#GigEm x #MCWS

[Texas A&M Baseball @AggieBaseball]

Shutout 𝐍𝐨. 𝟏𝟐 in Game 𝟏𝟐 of the #MCWS ✅

#GigEm

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Then there's the story of a young Texas lad in Sunday School who was asked to name the birthplace of Jesus. He guessed Gladewater, Mount Pleasant, and Bonham. When told the answer was Palestine, he said "I knew it was in East Texas somewhere."

Shown here: a parade in Palestine circa 1912

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

April 21 is not only the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, but also the date of the annual Texas A&M Muster, a tradition at Texas A&M University which celebrates the fellowship and camaraderie of the university while remembering the lives of alumni who have died, specifically those in the past year. Muster officially began on April 21, 1903, as a day for remembrance of fellow Aggies. Muster ceremonies today take place in approximately 320 locations globally. The largest muster ceremony occurs in Reed Arena, on the Texas A&M campus. The "Roll Call for the Absent" commemorates Aggies, alumni and current students, who died during the previous year. Alumni, family, and friends light candles and as they answer “here” when the name of their loved one is “called”. Tonight's ceremony at Reed Arena begins at 7:00 p.m.

On June 26, 1883, alumni of Texas A&M University gathered together to "live over again their college days, the victories and defeats won and lost upon the drill field and in the classroom." The same year, the Ex-Cadets Association established the "Roll Call for the Absent". The event grew into a loosely organized annual tradition but did not have a permanent date set aside until several decades later, when it merged with a different tradition

In 1889, Texas A&M administrators declared that April 21, San Jacinto day, would be an official school holiday. Each year on San Jacinto Day, the cadets would have a track and field competition. In 1903, then-A&M President Davis Houston encountered much student resistance to the idea of cancelling the holiday. Houston agreed to retain the holiday as long as the students promised to use it for constructive purposes.

Beginning April 21, 1903, the tradition of Aggie Muster merged with the Texas Independence celebration, featuring athletic events and banquets to honor alumni. For the next 15 years, the event would occur unchanged as a day of play, celebration and fellowship. In 1918, though, with many alumni away involved in World War I and unable to return to campus, A&M President Bizzell encouraged alumni and the student body to gather wherever they were on April 21, becoming the first Aggie administrator to officially support the tradition.

In the early 1920s, as alumni returned from the war and settled throughout Texas, regional A&M clubs formed to reunite alumni. With the proliferation of these groups, the Muster tradition began to have a more formal atmosphere. In 1923, the student radio station WTAW broadcast a statewide program for over two dozen Aggie groups who had gathered at points across Texas. The March 1923 Texas Aggie urged, "If there is an A&M man in one-hundred miles of you, you are expected to get together, eat a little, and live over the days you spent at the A&M College of Texas."

The tradition of reading aloud the roll call of the dead began 100 years ago, in 1924, with the addition of the tune "Taps" in 1927. The following year, 23 alumni were added to the roll call. During the Great Depression, alumni continued to celebrate April 21, calling it "A. and M. Day."

The most well-known Aggie Muster took place during World War II in 1942 on the Philippine island of Corregidor. At this time, Corregidor was the last American stronghold against the Japanese forces in the Philippines, and Japanese artillery and warplanes were constantly attacking. The American artillery commander on Corregidor was Brigadier General George F. Moore, a 1908 graduate of Texas A&M. With the help of Major Tom Dooley, class of 1935, Moore gathered the names of 25 other Aggies under his command. Despite the fierce fighting as the Japanese laid siege to the island, on April 21, 1942, Moore held a roll call—known as muster in army terms—calling the names of each of the Aggies under his command. Moore also led a group of recently commissioned Aggies in a tribute to honor the valiant Aggies who had died, hold a yell practice and sing "The Aggie War Hymn" with all their strength, all under heavy enemy fire.

Only 12 of the 25 survived the battle and the POW camps to which the survivors were sent. Dooley told a United Press correspondent about the gathering, and the reporter sent an article back to the USA about the 25 Aggies who had "Mustered". The story captured the imagination of the country and "helped boost American spirits at a time a lift was badly needed." Lt. Col. (Ret.) William A. Hamilton, Jr., Class of 1940, recognized as the last living survivor of the "Muster on the Rock", died on January 4, 2018, at age 99.

Association of Former Students Executive Secretary E. E. McQuillen, Class of 1920, credited with refocusing San Jacinto Day as a remembrance for fallen Aggies. He changed the April 21, 1943, celebration to be the first known as an Aggie Muster and sent packets to each A&M club, Aggie Moms club, and to US military bases around the world with a detailed program of events for April 21. It included greetings from the A&M President and the Muster Poem. The response was overwhelming, with 10,000 alumni worldwide mustering in 500 locations. The following year, McQuillen added a list of recently deceased Aggies to the packets, asking each local group to choose names from the list and call them aloud during their ceremony, and "as each name is called a comrade will answer 'Here'."

In April 1945, just eight weeks after Corregidor had been recaptured by the Allies, three Aggies conducted a Muster "on the Rock". They wrote letters home to McQuillen to let him know about their impromptu Muster. A year later, on April 21, 1946, an even larger Muster occurred on Corregidor. That is what is shown in the photo here.

With the war now over, A&M held a special Victory Homecoming Muster on Easter morning in 1946. Over 15 thousand Aggies gathered at Kyle Field to listen to a speech by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Lt. Col. Tom Dooley also presented the "Muster Tradition" and conducted a WWII Roll Call. To represent the 900 alumni who died in World War II, the names of the four deceased WWII Aggie Medal of Honor recipients were called.

Shown here: Aggie Muster on Corregidor, 1946.

[Jackson @MaloneJackson]

RT @TracesofTexas: In 1971, Mariano Martine, Jr. adapted a Slurpee machine to create the world's first frozen margarita machine at Mariano'…

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The exact moment Bill Gates decided there are too many people on this planet

[Jackson @MaloneJackson]

@chandler_myers this y’all’s peak?

[TBA Takeover @maroonwhitebias]

My honest thoughts of the intro song through 3 home games

It’s boring, not catchy, and sounds like an intro to a corny YouTube video. You’re lying to yourself if you think it’s ever a quarter of what Power was

[Rookie Watch @RookieWatxh]

De’Von Achane is currently averaging the most yards per carry (11.4) in the entire NFL.

Has more total TD’s (6) than any RB taken in the most recent NFL Draft.

Has the sixth most rushing yards (309) in the league, despite having nearly half the carries of every RB in the Top-10.

And is also the fastest player recorded yet this season at 21.93 MPH.

Five RB’s were taken ahead of Achane at the NFL Draft.

The Dolphins got an absolute STEAL in their rookie RB 😳

[MFFL @Mavs_FFL]

People don’t realize how much of a menace prime Dirk was 🐐

#MFFL

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

LMAO

[KC Varsity Combines @Varsitycombine1]

McKennon could have spent the rest of his life telling his children and grandchildren about the time he scored a touchdown in the superbowl. I'm sure he has dreamed of that moment since he was a child, and knows he may never get the opportunity again. Instead, with 1 min left, he chose to sacrifice that accomplishment to better the chances that all of his teammates get a ring. I will always be a fan. This is a picture that should be put up in every high school gym in the country.

[Jackson @MaloneJackson]

@lang_hunter It’s actually $70 now & I can’t believe they got me for it again😂 so mid

[Jackson @MaloneJackson]

@scottperkins67 You nailed it😂

[Jackson @MaloneJackson]

Just saw a woman with furry ears & a tail walking her dog & now I’m seriously wondering who was walking who

[Carter Hale ✭ @carterhale22]

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