A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day 08-13-02

Billie

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hi, Julie - just wanted to say - I love the graphics and things you post - don't often get to tell you!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I found that picture is also at the Whitehouse.gov website re: Heartland - Texas Tour - from last summer! (Didn't know that). Yes, a lot of us are crazy about that Texas guy - our President!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I do love your Texas Babe for Bush poster-graphic!!!! Wow!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Here's what I mean by a long, flat, forever, Texas Highway: (I hope this picture stays here - if not let me know). We don't have highways like this in NC - with wide open spaces that go on and on and on flat and open like this forever (it seems).

[ru4liberty]

Here's a gorgeous West Texas sunrise

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Oooooooo - another beauty!

[ru4liberty]

Isn't it tho? How can anyone look at that sky and say there is no God?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

"How can anyone look at that sky and say there is no God?"

Amen!

[ru4liberty]

Daingerfield State Park

[COB1]

By October 24, 1835, the Texan army of settlers had driven Cos and his army back to the Alamo at San Antonio.
As seige was laid, word began to trickle out to the rest of America about what was happening in Texas, and it attracted the attention of men like Sam Houston, Davy Crockett and James Bowie.
Volunteers began to arrive in Texas for the sheer joy of fighting for their principles.

This volunteer army is described by one Noah Southwick:

"Words are inadequate to convey an impression of the first Texas army as it formed in marching order.....it certainly bore little resemblance to the army of my childhood dreams. Buckskin breeches were the nearest approach to uniform and here was a wide diversity even there, some being new and soft and yellow, while others, from long familiarity with rain and grease and dirt, had become hard and black and shiny....Boots being an unknown quantity, some wore shoes and some moccasins. Here a broad brimmed sombrero overshadowed the military cap at it's side; there the tall 'beegum' rode familiarly beside a coon-skin cap, with a tail hanging down behind, as all well regulated tails should do. Here a big American horse loomed above the nimble Spanish pony....there a half-broke mustang pranced beside a sober, methodical mule.....in lieu of a canteen each man carried a Spanish gourd....A fantastic miltary array to the casual observer, but the one great purpose animating every heart clothed us in a uniform more perfect in our eyes than was ever donned by regulars on dress parade."

"Lone Star" - T.F. Fehrenbach

[ru4liberty]

Near Harlingen

[ru4liberty]

Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park

[COB1]

Texas fact:

The assault San Antonio and of the Alamo by the Texas militia began on three in the morning of December 5, 1835.
On December 10, after bitter house to house fighting in San Antonio, General Cos surrendered the Alamo and eleven hundred and five men and officers to the Texas militia of between five hundred and eight hundred men.
Cos and his men were allowed to return to Mexico with the pledge that they would never again fight against the colonists.

[LadyX]

Hi, Billie!

I logged off just minutes before you made this reply, having to go out to the post office and get groceries.

Will start over and read the whole thread, and comment more in the evening.

{{{Hugs to all Texans!!}}}

[MeekOneGOP]

hehehe ! Hey, Miss Clara! I'll tell Ming "Hi" for ya !

[anymouse]

Congrats Meek!

A Texas-sized bump for y'all. ;)

[MeekOneGOP]

see, you made me learn something :o)

and i thought it was going to be a dull day

LOL! Alrighty!

[lodwick]

Here's a nice find for the press corps. They can go to the Dr.Pepper Museum in Waco and learn all about the history of the world's oldest soft drink pop.

[MeekOneGOP]

My first reaction was that I thought MeeknMing was a female - now I know it's two people! Important information you post here Billie! :) Now, I'm going to have to get out my magnifying glass for Mr. New One!

LOL ! My screen name caused me to heard that a lot, especially after I first
registered.

[lodwick]

View from Caprock near Lubbock

Stock tank in the Panhandle near Channing