God Bless The Lone Star Republic

Commandancy of the Alamo
Bexar, Fby. 24th, 1836

To the People of Texas &
all Americans in the world
Fellow Citizens & Compatriots

I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender nor retreat.

Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, & of everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long aspossible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country.

Victory or Death
William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. Comdt.

P. S. The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels & got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves.

Travis


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License For Tyranny

Take a moment and reflect upon the 1st anniversary of the Supreme Courts Kelo v.s. New London decision that allows the government to seize a private AMERICAN citizens property and give it to another private citizen. In honor of this auspicious occasion I think I will clean and oil my rifle. I wonder just how many it will take this time. Old Virginny's mostly forgotten motto seems appropriate

Sic Semper Tyranis

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Road Rage

One of my new collateral duties here is standing convoy commander for all of our Log runs. Yes Virginia, the Swabbies is running convoys now. On the bright side it means I get to play with cool armored tonka toys with really testosterone impregnated big guns mounted on them. The downside to this is that when you are out running the roads then you are exposed to Johnny Jihad and his explosives fetish. On that note, I heard tell the muj is might environmentally friendly cuz the've been shyin' away from gas guzzling, air polluting VBIEDs (spoken Car Bomb in English) in favor of much more environmentally sound Bicycle and Donkey born IEDs (Somebody call Super Mario, we got Donkey Bombs here!). Maybe they can't get car insurance anymore. I wonder if they have heard of GEICO. I reckon they're trying to get on the good side of the environmentalist whackos but then they might have gone and burned some bridges with PETA with that whole donkey based weapons system thing. Anyway I ran my first convoy yesterday doing my "right seat ride" training with units old convoy team. It was an interesting experience. Like most convoys nothing bad happened but I can say I was pumped on adrenalin anyway! I thought it was interesting how well trained the populace is. They see us coming down the middle of the road, they head for the pea patch lickity split. It's like living the best road rage fantasy you ever had! We all came back with the proper number of fingers and toes so I would call that a successful run. I guess we have transition from Sailors Naval Infantry and on to Mechanized Naval Infantry WooooHOOOO! Navy...It's not just a job, its accelerating your life in convoy adventures...or something like that. The really cool part is that I get to chose our new call sign. So far the suggestions (primarily from the Army personnel on the team) have been like Seaman 6, Sea Legs 6 and Salty Dog 6. I am kinda leanin' towards Squid 6 just cuz if we ever do get all blowed up I might just ink myself.

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Bloody Abe

Wow, someone else shares my view of the "great emancipater"

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Sad News

From Doc In The Box I learn that my command from my last deployment CJTF-HOA has last some souls and helos. I was readiness officer for the CJTF to include aviation readiness. The Marine crews are some of the best I have ever been honored to work with. My heart goes out to the families left behind.

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The Power Of Mudville

I call these Greyhawk spikes:

Isn't it amazing what a link from the Mudville Gazette will do?

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Wacky Iraqis

We were all out at one of the ranges playing with our crew served weapons, RPKs and AKs when one of our senior Iraqi officers takes a brand new SAPI plate issued to one of his Jundis, places it on the target line and fires three rounds into it. While it is cool to see that they actually will stop bullets it's totally uncool to see a perfectly good plate destroyed. Wouldn't have even really cared about that except that they are kind of hard to come by in the Iraqi supply system and for the time of year that it is now. You see, that plate was not paid for by Ministry of Defense funds or even funds generated by the Iraqi state. That $750 plate was bought and paid for by money STOLEN FROM ME BY THE IRS AND THE THIEVING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. That's right folks, I watched a damn fool Iraqi blow away my money for sh*ts and grins. I darn well oughta itemize my deductions and claim that plate under the justification of pure stupidity! I don't really give a flying f*** at a rolling doughnut what they do with their own money but once they waste my money it starts to rile me up, particularly when that money was taken from me by threat of force by an over-reaching, constitution ignoring, low down, scum-sucking, thieving gubberment don't have the righteous constitutional authority to take my money in the first place!

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