After graduating (EE’95), I took a job where I did a lot of traveling for a telecommunications vendor. I went around the United States and was in a different airport every week. The first time I went to the Northwest, I flew into Washington. I worked on a site there and went on to Seattle. While in Seattle, I was driving along a main road and noticed a car that seemed to be trying to flag me down. I was not sure but they were pointing to my car and yelling. I was in a rental so I assumed that it was a flat or I was breaking some law or I did not know what. A little apprehensive, I rolled down my windows as they pulled up next to me. Then I understood what they were yelling - “War Eagle!!” My orange AU baseball cap in the back window was a magnet to them across 3 lanes of traffic. Auburn was their adopted school since their local college did not have a football team and the state teams were not very good. We pulled over and I told them I was a graduate. We talked about “Nix to Sanders”, “Bo over the top”, and my experiences while a student. They said that they knew AU was a special place when they watched the Iron Bowl and saw the pre-game atmosphere in our stadium and in Auburn, Alabama. That was a truly unique experience. Our “family” is so special that it shows in everything we do and I imagine others are drawn to our Tigers not necessarily for football greatness as much as “the Auburn experience”….
Charles

I was in Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan when I saw an Auburn baseball cap floating in the crowd. I lost it a couple of times but eventually tracked it down outside on the observation platform. I walked up behind the kid wearing it and said “War Eagle.” The rest of the people he was with looked at me like I was crazy, but he turned around and said it right back. He said he was an international student, and I’m pretty sure he was just coming back from Camp War Eagle. I’d like to think that I was his first War Eagle, and I’m pretty sure it was one of his farthest from Auburn too.
It’s great that we have something like this to unify everyone who is associated with Auburn. It is truly unique.
William