At 2:42 a.m. Monday morning Texas A&M students will gather at the bonfire to remember those lost in the tragic stack collapse. In an eery thing, 12 people were killed in this tragedy and A&M has been known as Home of the 12th Man after a football game in 1922 when student E. King Gill volunteered to fill in when the team was running out of people to play the game.

After the tragedy, students started to leave their class rings at the memorial and these were all returned... except for one.

This class of 83 ring had its name completely scratched out to where they could never figure out the name of the owner. To this day this ring is kept on display with the Rings of Significance at the Alumni Center. With Rings donated from every class year including James Earl Rudder, the commander of the 2nd U.S. Army Ranger Battalion and led the storming of the beach at Pointe du Hoc, scaling 100-ft (30-m) cliffs to establish the first D-Day bridgehead and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. Another historic ring is that of Ormond R. Simpson who participated in the Pacific Theater during WWII and then played a large role in the Vietnam War as well.

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