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10 years after

November 17, 2009 11:00 pm • Last Updated: November 18, 2009 12:35 am

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Texas A&M students Katie Sivils, left, photographs an inscription on a marker for Jeremy Frampton as Kalee Bumguardner, right, reacts at the Texas A&M Bonfire Memorial Tuesday in College Station, Texas. About 10,000 Aggies and others were gathering at the university's basketball arena Tuesday evening for a ceremony remembering the accident, in which the 59-foot tower of logs collapsed as it was being built early Nov. 18, 1999. Along with the dozen killed, 27 others were injured.

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