AMEN!!!!!!
YEAH I'M A TEXAN!!!!!
And all the
people said........................."Amen."
(A
Texan)
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, and 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 in a pickup. There is some
bit of Texas in everyone.
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 and 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.
"FREEDOM is not America's gift to the world; it is God's
gift to humanity."
(George W. Bush 1-2003--State of the Nation Address) Texas
is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and
Compaq. 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, Texas at
20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet.
Do you know why?
Because we place being a Texan as high as being an American
down here. (It is the only state that was a republic before
it became a state, that is the reason I was taught).
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.
If you are a REAL TEXAN you won't need to be told to pass
this on.
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