The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
By falling in battle, they were raised to the summit of Texas history......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
One of my great, great, great grandfathers* snuck up on the bastards at San Jacinto and got a measure of retribution.
His father was one of The Original Three Hundred, I learned last year.
*I think I got the number of “greats” correct there
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
I think my grandfather's great-grandfather came to Texas about the time of Austin's colony. My grandfather was born in 1896 on a farm between Elgin and Giddings. He told me his great-grandfather had been in Texas on that farm all his life. He was a truck driver and owned a trucking company and had settled down in Hamilton where my mom was born and grew up.
My Dad's side of the family were latecomers and came to Jacksboro sometime in the 1890s and ended up in Baird where my dad grew up.
I don't know of any of my ancestors that fought in the Alamo, all were simple farmers.
Remember the Alamo!!