The Spirit Of Texas Nationalism
This is something my Uncle sent to me. It was worth posting
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do
you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns,
eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for
a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, the Red
River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will
be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it
is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a
picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I
show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a
second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir
any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes
just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off
in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone. Did you ever hear
anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?"
Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing
thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance
to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for
the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B.Travis
and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a
line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne
paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill
Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon
Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ
Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan,Denton Cooley and Michael
DeBakey, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq.
And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF
Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where cities shut down to watch the local High School
Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night
Football, and NIOSA River Parade in San Antonio.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies,
and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You
fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and
your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and
Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star
flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the
only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol
is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in
Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five
states if we want to! We included these things as part of the deal when we
came on. That's the best part right there.
God Bless the Republic of Texas!
TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do
you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns,
eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for
a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, the Red
River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will
be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it
is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a
picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I
show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a
second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir
any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes
just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off
in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone. Did you ever hear
anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?"
Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing
thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance
to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for
the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B.Travis
and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a
line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne
paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill
Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon
Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ
Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan,Denton Cooley and Michael
DeBakey, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq.
And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF
Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where cities shut down to watch the local High School
Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night
Football, and NIOSA River Parade in San Antonio.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies,
and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You
fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and
your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and
Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star
flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the
only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol
is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in
Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five
states if we want to! We included these things as part of the deal when we
came on. That's the best part right there.
God Bless the Republic of Texas!
TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD
posted by Ed | 1/19/2004 12:14:00 AM
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