[archy]

We have squandered their sacrifice, they may as well have gone fishing instead of defending the Alamo. The first way we squandered their sacrifice was to give up our independence to become a state, the second way everyone can see every day.

We can fix a mistake or two. It'll take some doimg, but it can be done.

Like the Alamo fight itself, it may not be obviously successful, but will at least poke a stick in the eyes of our adversaries, and may set the example for others to follow. In any event, that which Crockett, Travis, Bowie and the otyhers purchased with their blood should not be given up easily or without an equal cost to the other side. You are invited to join in and attend the ball if you so choose.

And though we may not live to see success, I'd not care to live to see a rollover surrender. And I don't expect to.

[Travis McGee]

If we lose, it will be through the steady drip drip drip of the dilution of liberty and freedom. Another 2 generations, and nobody alive will remember what was lost.