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 Anna at San Jacinto.
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, Gene Autry, Audie Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones,
Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell
Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn,
Howard Hughes, George H. W.Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, and George W.
Bush.
PANTERA!!
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and
Compaq. Bell Heilocopter 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 home to the most amazing sunsets of gold over an empty field.
Texans have pride like no others.
Texas is hundreds of deer running around neighborhoods and fields.
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.
To drive across Texas is to drive 1/4 the way across the United States
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.
Everything's bigger in Texas...well almost!
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.
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 Klein Oak High 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!!
Texas has the hottest girls in the world...wink-wink!
