Thanks (from us real Texans) for posting this.
I had no idea those brave warriors were Masons.
About the Republic of Texas>
http://www.starmuseum.org/questions.htm
An article from the June 24, 1934 issue of the Dallas News by T. B. Baldwin relates the story of how Texas got its Lone Star. His story recounts the actions of Henry Smith, who became the first governor of pre-revolutionary Texas in 1835. “In Smith’s day overcoats had large brass buttons. It happened that the buttons on the coat of Governor Smith had the impress of a five-pointed star. A few days after he was inaugurated Governor, a messenger arrived with important papers. After reading and signing them the Governor said: “Texas should have a seal,” and forthwith he cut one of the big buttons from his overcoat and with sealing wax stamped the impress of the Lone Star upon the documents.”
It might also be noted that there may have been a Masonic influence to the adoption of a five-pointed star for Texas. George K. Teulon in Freemasons’ Monthly Magazine in 1844 noted, “Texas is emphatically a Masonic Country; all of our Presidents and Vice-President, and four-fifths of our State Officers were and are Masons: by Freemasonry to illustrate the moral virtues—it is a Five Pointed Star...May it ever bind us in the holy Bond of Fraternal Union and govern our social, Masonic, and Political intercourse.”
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None of this should surprise anyone.