[Phsstpok]

Kind of reminds me of the Texas A&M bonfire tragedy of 1999. There were no death threats, but a lot of Aggies and alums wanted the tradition to continue even though 12 students lost their lives when the logs collapsed. For some, tradition outweighs everything.

Absolutely nothing in common.  I knew one of the kids killed in that tragedy.  He was a friend of my children and was in the scout troop my wife ran, so please don't go there.  He would have wanted it to go on.  It's about community.

The spirit involved in continuing the A&M bonfire is much more akin to the emotions and issues in Matthew McConaughey 's We Are Marshall. 

[Sans-Culotte]

I said it "kind of reminded" me of the bonfire in that so many wanted the tradition to coninue in spite of the many deaths. I never said "it was exactly the same".

It matters not to me if all the families of the dead support the traditon. I just don't think traditions like a bonfire (or shooting a cannon) are worth losing lives. That's just my opinion, not meant as an insult to you or the memory of the student you knew, so don't even try to make it into that.