[Candor7]

Davy Crocket has been my hero since I was a five year old in 1954, when I and others of my generation used to wear our imitation coon skin caps, plastic fringed imitation buckskin jeans and jackets, while carrying around plastic sticked flint locks with percussion caps that used to sting the sides of our cheeks when we pulled the triggers.

It was not until 2004 that I was able to vist the Alamo in San Antonio for the first time. That IS a special place, and I would recommend it to every American who has not been. I sat in the Alamo garden, next to a fountain, and after getting permission, played my pipes there. I feel that many Alamo patriots are still there. Its what the Japanese would call a "Kami place."

Remember the Alamo.

And take it to Iraq.

[EternalVigilance]

"Be sure you are right. Then go ahead." - David Crockett

[Jedidah]

Did you play “Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee . . . killed him a bar when he was only three” on your pipes?

The Alamo is, indeed, a very special place. The flag room, displaying the many nationalities of the defenders, gives me chills. Talk about a coalition!

[EternalVigilance]

"I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried that to be hypochriticalley immortalized." - Statement following his 1831 defeat

"Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Final statement on his Congressional defeat

"He is gone from among us, and is no more to be seen in the walks of men, but in his death like Sampson, he slew more of his enemies than in all his life. Even his most bitter enemies here, I believe, have buried all animosity, and join the general lamentation over his untimely end." - Words written by Davy's son John Wesley Crockett, 1836

[EternalVigilance]

"Some large dogs I have seen here with their collers on with letters engraved on the coller "My dog" - and the man's name on the Coller. I have not got a coller round my neck marked my dogn with the name of Andrew Jackson on it - because I would not take the coller round my nick I was herld from their party." - Davy Crockett

[mdittmar]

Davy Crocket has been my hero since I was a five years old

Seems we all had 'em,Davy Crocket,Daniel Boone.

But that's not p.c. anymore,guess we should all forget about them.

Oh,by the way

Day 4) Thursday September 6, 2007

9:00 AM - Tucson, AZ
Pro-Troop Rally & News Conference
Freedom Park - 5000 E. 29th St
[CLICK HERE for MAP]
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

4:00 PM Las Cruces, NM Rally Start
Pro-Troop Rally & News Conference
2651 Roadrunner Parkway
Rally to take place at Veterans Park
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

6:15 PM - El Paso, TX
Pro-Troop Rally & News Conference
Sue Young Park - 9730 Diana Drive
[CLICK HERE for MAP]
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

7:30 PM - Arrive at Embassy Suites - El Paso
6100 Gateway Blvd East
El Paso, TX 79905
Supporters can welcome arrival of caravan and bring cards/letters for wounded warriors to the hotel.

(Day 5) Friday Sept 7 2007

Leave El Paso, TX 10:00 AM

8:00 PM - Arrive in San Antonio at Comfort Inn
6755 North Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249
Supporters can welcome arrival of caravan and bring cards/letters for wounded warriors to the hotel.

(Day 6) Saturday Sept 8 2007

9:00 AM - San Antonio, TX Rally
Bass Pro
Front Parking Lot
17907 1H-10 West
San Antonio, TX 78257
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

2:00 PM Waco, TX Rally
Pro-Troop Rally & Caravan Gathering Point
Wal-Mart Supercenter - Parking Lot
1521 Interstate 35 N, Waco, TX - [CLICK HERE for MAP]
We will stop here to meet up with other local supporters and then caravan in to Crawford, Texas in a string of patriotic red, white and blue decorated vehicles.  So meet us there and have lots of patriotic flair on your vehicles!
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

3:15 PM - Crawford, TX
Pro-Troop Rally & News Conference
The Yellow Rose
6689 North Lone Star Parkway
Crawford, TX - [CLICK HERE for MAP]
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

7:15 PM Dallas, TX
Pro-Troop Rally & Press Conference
Flag Pole Hill
Buckner & NW Highway
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

8:30 PM Arrive in Dallas at Double Tree Hotel
8250 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX 75206
Supporters can welcome arrival of caravan and bring cards/letters for wounded warriors to the hotel.

Arrive Dallas, TX Hotl 8:30 PM


(Day 7) Sunday Sept 9 2007

*Special Note to Colorado Supporters:* Gathering of Eagles Colorado Chapter holds 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM pro-troop rally.  At 8:00 AM they will then depart in a caravan of vehicles to join up with the main “Fight for Victory Tour” caravan in Wichita, Kansas.  More information available - HERE
Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan.

Leave Dallas, TX 9:00 AM

[decal]

“I sat in the Alamo garden, next to a fountain, and after getting permission, played my pipes there. I feel that many Alamo patriots are still there.”

One of them was a Scot and fellow-piper, John MacGregor.

http://www.clangregor.org/famous.htm#John%20McGregor

[healy61]

This is a little off topic. Several years ago some young men poured weed killer on a very old tree at the Alamo and the tree died despite efforts. Does anyone know what became of the idiots who did that?

[Redbob]

"Davy Crocket has been my hero since I was a five year old in 1954, when I and others of my generation used to wear our imitation coon skin caps, plastic fringed imitation buckskin jeans and jackets, while carrying around plastic sticked flint locks with percussion caps that used to sting the sides of our cheeks when we pulled the triggers."

You and me both!

"Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier!"

And the Alamo is indeed a special place, when you read the names of the men on the monument out front, and think of that cowardly skirt-wearing Santa Ana.

[hennie pennie]

*ping* to Alamo