AGGIE MUSTER MEMORIAL ON CORREGIDOR

[Karl Welteke]

AGGIE MUSTER MEMORIAL ON CORREGIDOR

Aggie Muster is about great pride in and tradition of the Texas A and M University. A memorial has been established on Corregidor in 2015 and these are 13 pictures of the memorial.

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or
tinyurl.com/o7an9ck


I present 6 images here but they are much smaller than in the album:



W182 this is a 17th Sep 2015 image of the Aggie Muster Memorial; the inauguration has been held and the plaques are installed.



W183 this is a close-up of the last image and we can clearly see the three plaques mounted on the three steps on the left side of the Aggie Muster Memorial.



W184 this is a 17th Sep 2015 image of the Aggie Muster Memorial; the inauguration has been held and the plaques are installed. It stands next to the Rock Force Memorial and in back is the so called Mile Long Barracks, topside on Corregidor.



W185 the emblem of the A & M University and a plaque describing the Aggie Muster has been placed on the vertical wall of the Aggie Muster Memorial.



W186 the 3rd plaque lists all the names of the 1942 Aggie Muster on Corregidor in the darkest hour of the US Military and all of the United States and all its Territories.



W187 This Aggie Muster Plaque is placed on the vertical wall of the new Aggie Muster Memorial Topside on Corregidor; it is placed above the Texas A & M Emblem on the ground.

[Karl Welteke]

AGGIE MUSTER MEMORIAL ON CORREGIDOR URLs

The Kwiecinski Family (who until recently resided on Corregidor) has a blog entry about the Aggie Muster Memorial Inauguration with many pictures:

steveandmarciaontherock.blogspot.com/2015/04/texas-aggie-muster-on-corregidor-2015.html

Here is one sample image:



W188 placing the A & M Seal during the Inauguration of the Aggie Muster Memorial. Photo credit to Steve and Marcia Kwiecinski.



Aggie Muster explained in more detail by a reader:


steveandmarciaontherock.blogspot.com/2015/04/aggie-muster-explained-in-more-detail.html



For more information about the famous musters here in 1942 and 1946, go to:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muster_%28Texas_A%26M_University%29
and scroll down to the section called "World War II."


Some people are not too happy with the location of the Aggie Muster Memorial and have it expressed in this forum.

corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1793/monument-visual-pollution

EXO said this on the 28th March 2015 in the above thread URL:

The monument is to the men from Texas A&M University who fought on Corregidor, were captured, suffered and those among them who died at the hands of the Japanese. "Aggies", as they are called, were strongly represented within the Army and Coast Artillery. There is an article about their Corregidor Muster of 1942, and a statement to the effect that they intended to erect a monument at the mouth of the Malinta Tunnel, recognizing and remembering the 24 brave Aggies who mustered there in 1942. Topside is a "Texas mile" from Malinta Tunnel.

This is the same link should the other one in the above paragraph not work.

www.aggienetwork.com/news/133894/the-1942-corregidor-muster/



W189 this is the famous image of the 1946 Aggie Muster on Corregidor. Photo credit, the URL above