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From a native who can say that some of my ancestors were born in Texas during the Republic:
“Texas is not where you were born, but a State of Mind, Heart and Attitude”
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I am not a decendant of those who fought to liberate Texas, but am planning to post an excerpt from a website of those who are. Unless I miscalculated, this is the 175th Anniversity of the Battle of San Jacinto.
Yes...we're just hours away from the 175th anniversary of that blessed day. The working title I was planning for my post was:
Triumphant Texans Topple Tyrant! Victory at San Jacinto: 175th Anniversary
Feel free to steal it or adapt it for your posting. I'll be eagerly watching for it.
The paragraph from the Texas A&M site (see above) that says so much is:
San Jacinto! San Jacinto! The Mexicans are whipped and Santa Anna a prisoner." The scene that followed beggars description. People embraced, laughed and wept and prayed, all in one breath. As the moon rose over the vast flower-decked prairie, the soft southern wind carried peace to tired hearts and grateful slumber. As battles go, San Jacinto was but a skirmish; but with what mighty consequences! The lives and the liberty of a few hundred pioneers at stake and an empire won! Look to it, you Texans of today, with happy homes, mid fields of smiling plenty, that the blood of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto sealed forever. Texas, one and indivisible!
I almost weep like John Boehner :-) when I think of the brave Texans who fought for liberty and freedom.