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Have you ever looked at a map of the world?
Look at Texas with me just for a
second. That picture, with the Panhandle
and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part
of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world
looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas.
Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the
dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any
other state? You'll get it maybe after a second, but who else would? And
even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this little rock the Good Lord put us on,
there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get
up on a horse or ride in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell
me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands
of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out
and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of
freedom.
We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and
Crockett and do you know why?
Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be
heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of
Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Anna at San Jacinto.
Texas is Audie Murphy - Movie star and
the most decorated soldier in World War II.
Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in Big Bend.
Texas is shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere in the world, even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards and the Bass Hall.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly, Earl
Campbell and Nolan Ryan, Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey, Sam Rayburn,
George Bush, and George W. Bush.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer and Compaq.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where cities shut down for the Cowboys on Monday Night
Football, and NIOSA River Parade in San Antonio.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies,
and modern cities. If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at
the same height as the U.S. flag.
Think about that for a second.
You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet, in Maryland, or California, or
Maine, and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17. You fly the Stars
and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star
flies at the same height - 20 feet.
Do you know why? Because we place being a Texan as high as being an American
down here. (and because Texas is the only state that was a country before
becoming a state)
Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol
building in Washington, D.C.
We included these things in it as part of the deal when we came on. That's
the best part right there.
WHEN WE CAME ON. A test to see if you are REALLY a Texan! If you are a REAL
TEXAN, ...pass this on.
YEE HAW...I'M FROM TEXAS AND I'M PROUD OF IT!!!
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