Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart
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 off in a pickup. There is some little 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, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, Rick Husband, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon B.Johnson.
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 towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio 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 probably 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 or anyplace else 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 at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
If you are a REAL TEXAN you won't even need to be told to pass this on!"
Thanks for posting that - I clicked on it earlier and meant to thank you. My kids came out of the woodwork singing it as they do every morning at school. Wish you could have heard their sweet little voices.........God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong......
It is a picture and it works for me.
Did I mess up the HTML code?
It looked like a bad dream - took me forever to scroll through it. :o)
Everybody named Eaker are related.
He is relative of mine though I don't have the links at hand.
Is there any way I can help?
Wish I was back in Texas. The ocean's no place for a squirrel. Wish I was Texas, prettiest place in the world, oh no. I guess deep in my heart, I'll always be a Texas girl. I wanna home, home! Yo-de-lay-de oh...
I wanna wake up in Texas. I miss those wide open skies. I miss my twenty acres. Barbecues and pecan pies, oh why, when I'm so far from you Texas, all I can do is cry...
I wanna go home, (deep voice) I wanna go home!
It is a 79k pic. It works fine for me.
What is the problem on your end?
Even on the worst dial-up it should not be a problem.
I am using Mozilla and it is fine. I will bring it up in Gates' program and check it there.
Check your FReepmail......
You might want to ask the Admin Mod to delete and start over.
I thought you were sending us an actual-size map of Texas!!!
As parliamentarian of our county Republican Party, I have often led our group in the short, sweet, and historically ignorant pledge to the Texas flag: "Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas: one and indivisible."
Actualy, Texas is the only state permitted by the act of statehood to divide itself 5 ways without leave of Congress or President. Last got much mention at all during the late 60's as a device to create 8 more presumably conservative Senators. Another relic of our status as a former independant republic.
By the way, a poor day to bet against Texas college teams.
I made a error in the width. 7600 instead of 760.
IE failed. It shows up fine on FireFox.
I have asked the Mod remove it.
Thanks.
DANG!!! I was looking forward to that ACTUAL SIZE map of Texas!!!
Chili as we know it today was made possible by a German named Willie Gebhardt. He was the discoverer of a way to produce and preserve chili powder so it would be available year round.
You are absolutely correct. I visited Jerusalem last October. When we went out, the first evening there, It was the same temp/humidity I am used to in San Antonio.
Have you ever had that stuff they call "chilli" or "Chille" in Pennsylvania?? Hamburger cooked in ketchup. Awful!!
Maury Maverick was a very Liberal A$$hole. Just really loved his Communist friends from Austin.
Remember Red Berry, Texas legislature representative from San Antonio. Wanted to split the state into North and South Texas because of Gambling and mixed drinks.
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