Could happen.
Posted on 05/10/2014 4:51:55 AM PDT by billorites
AUSTIN — The petition to wrest Santa Anna’s leg from Illinois and bring it to Texas was flat-footed from the start.
But Texas museum officials believe their heart was in the right place, even if that prosthetic leg is not.
Last month, the San Jacinto Battle Monument and Museum launched a petition on the White House website, hoping to get 100,000 signatures to lure an important artifact to Texas. It suggested that the wooden and cork leg used by Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna — the villain of the Alamo and Goliad and a figure deeply embedded in Texas lore — should join other historical items in a Texas museum.
The leg, curiously enough, is in the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield. And officials there are in no mood to give it up.
“We know Santa Anna is a big deal in Texas history,” said museum curator Bill Lear. “But it’s here. It’s going to stay here. You don’t trade artifacts.”
Given that attitude, San Jacinto museum officials thought a petition might do something to kick it loose.
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A good, ol' fashioned invasion might serve to kick it loose and repatriate it to Texas.
Could happen.
Sounds like he was ever much so the narcissist.
“Rather snarky this morning, are we? Maybe you need to go back to sleep, snoring....”
Yeah, guess I was. We texans are actually friendly by nature. However, I’m concerned that all these transplants coming in will do the same to Texas that Californians did to Colorado...
I knew the story..my post was a pun..deFEETed
If you Texans are going to bother to saddle up and invade Illinois for the leg, please feel free to take Chicago while you’re at it.
The Illinois state house used to have an amazing display of Civil War flags from Illinois regiments and captured confederate flags. Sort of a giant Victorian display case at the head of the stairs off the lobby. I saw it as a kid. Apparently they’ve gotten old and brittle so they took them down 30 years ago and have them stored flat at a museum.
The Leg needs to be in Texas! He lost the leg in the so called Pastry War with France—he was a hero then for leading the attack on the French—they withdrew and Santa Ana became president—where upon he shreaded the Constution of 1824. In time the Meexican people woke up and kicked him out—After he lead them in a disasterious war with the US and lost 1/3 of their nation. (They still wonder—what might have happened if he threw in his reserves at The Battle of Buena Vista—rather than running away and leaving his army to the mercy of the Yanquies.
“It’s a major award.”
Utterly hilarious episode. I especially like the public service bit at the end where Hank asks viewers to write to Dick Durbin.
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