We Will Remember

[MajorMike]

In case any of you were not sure what the quote in my sig is from. Tomorrow marks 6 years since we lost The Ten.

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We Will Remember (http://www.okstate.com/fls/200/memorial/index.htm)

Colorado Memorial (http://osu.okstate.edu/Colorado/)

STILLWATER (OSU Athletics http://www.okstate.com) - The Oklahoma State University Basketball Memorial, located in the southwest lobby of Gallagher-Iba Arena, will be open to the public on Friday and Saturday as the University observes the sixth anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of 10 men returning from the Cowboys¹ basketball game at the University of Colorado on Jan. 27, 2001.

The memorial will be open for the public to visit, leave tributes, express their thoughts or simply reflect on the lives of those who were lost.

At 6:37 p.m. on Saturday (the crash took place at approximately 5:37 p.m. Mountain time), the OSU Library Carillon will toll 10 times in memory of the victims. As he has done on each anniversary, OSU Vice President for Administration and Finance, Dr. David Bosserman, will lay a wreath at the crash site memorial in Colorado.

This weekend will also officially launch efforts for the inaugural ³Remember The 10 Run² that will be held in Stillwater on April 21st. Proceeds from the event will be donated to OSU Counseling Services.

For the first time, the anniversary falls on the date of a home basketball game as both the Oklahoma State men (vs. Iowa State at 7 p.m.) and women (vs. Baylor at 1:30 p.m.) will play in Gallagher-Iba Arena on Saturday.

The memorial will be open all day Friday. On Saturday, doors to the memorial will open at 10.

[Pugglekicker_21]

wow i never knew that...well, my deepest condolences Capt Mike

[Brutalis]

very nice memorial

[RonMexico]

Why can't Aggies and Cowboys just get along and use the common tragedy of fallen students?

Because RPI won't let us.

[johngateswhiteley]

Why can't Aggies and Cowboys just get along and use the common tragedy of fallen students?

Because RPI won't let us.

b/c oklahomo state sucks & the RPI. though, i do feel for the fallen students and i think its a great thing they are doing. :tu

[MajorMike]

OSU to play home games on anniversary of crash

OSU to play home games on anniversary of crash

By MURRAY EVANS, Associated Press Writer
January 26, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- For the first time since a 2001 plane crash killed 10 people associated with the Oklahoma State men's basketball program, the Cowboys and Cowgirls will play on the anniversary of the tragedy.

Oklahoma State will host a doubleheader Saturday in Stillwater. A women's game between the Cowgirls and No. 13 Baylor will be played in the afternoon, with the 13th-ranked Cowboys' game against Iowa State to follow in the evening.

Neither Oklahoma State squad has played a Jan. 27 game since the crash, which killed players Daniel Lawson and Nate Fleming, director of basketball operations Pat Noyes, publicist Will Hancock, trainer Brian Luinstra, manager Jared Weiberg, play-by-play announcer Bill Teegins, radio engineer Kendall Durfey and pilots Denver Mills and Bjorn Fahlstrom.

The plane had taken off outside Boulder, Colo., after the Cowboys had played Colorado. It crashed in a snowstorm a short time later about 40 miles from Denver in a pasture near Strasburg.

Part of the reason Oklahoma State hasn't played on a Jan. 27 since the crash is that that date never fell on a Saturday, when most college basketball teams schedule games.

The Big 12 Conference office in suburban Dallas determines the league schedule. Big 12 spokesman Bob Burda said Friday that Big 12 officials, including associate commissioner Tim Allen, discussed with Oklahoma State officials the possibility of a Jan. 27 game this season.

"OSU said it was comfortable playing on the 27th, provided they were able to play at home," Burda said.

Weiberg was the nephew of Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg.

Oklahoma State, after consulting with family members of the victims, decided not to hold a formal service Saturday at the site of a memorial to the men, which is located in the lobby of Gallagher-Iba Arena, OSU spokeswoman Carrie Hulsey-Greene said.

"A lot of the thinking is because we have a memorial that people pass by every day, that's a way for the university and everyone attached to the university to remember those people every day," Hulsey-Greene said.

OSU opened the memorial to the public on Friday and planned to do so on Saturday before the women's game against Baylor. At both the Cowgirls' game and the Cowboys' game, moments of silence will be observed, athletic department spokesman Kevin Klintworth said.

A banner with the names of the 10 men, the date of the crash and the phrase "We Remember" hangs inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.