Muster Ceremonies Saturday Honor Deceased Aggies
"Among those being honored at the campus Muster are two service members who died while on active duty: Marine Corps Maj. Nathan W. Anderson ’02 from Amarillo, who died Feb. 22 in a helicopter accident during a training exercise at the Yuma Training Range Complex near the Arizona-California border, and. Army Lt. Col. David E. “Dave” Cabrera ’92 from Houston, died Oct. 29, 2011, when a suicide bomber rammed an armored bus in the Afghan capital of Kabul."
"During World War II, Gen. George F. Moore, Texas A&M Class of 1908, was the commander of Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. He, along with 25 other Aggies on the island, held a Muster celebration on April 21, 1942. By May 6, the island had fallen to Japanese forces and all of those Aggies were either captured or killed.
The most famous Muster was held after the war in 1946, when Aggies who were present among the American armed forces on Corregidor once again held Muster on the island."
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