Texas Pride
When you're from Texas people that you meet ask you
questions like, Do
you have any cows? It's nice to be able to say yes.
They ask you, Do you
have horses? Yup. Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?
Of course. They all
want to know if you've been to Southfork. They
watched Dallas. Have you
ever looked at a map of the world? Heck yes you
have. Look at Texas 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 sooner or later,
but who else in the
world would?! 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 somewhere in them a person who wishes just
once he could be a
real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride in a
pickup or dance at a
dancehall.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, Wow so you're
from Kansas Cool.
Tell me about it? There is some bit of Texas in
everyone. Do you know
why? Because Texas is 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.
We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis
and Bowie and do you
know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand
and they decided to be
heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself.
That is Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Anna at San
Jacinto. Texas is 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 the uniqueness
of Austin. Texas is a world record bass from places
like Lake Fork. Texas
is the best colleges around. From Houston to
Amarillo and everywhere in
between. Texas is Mexican food like nowhere in the
world, even Mexico.
Texas is Lone Star beer and Shiner Bock. Texas is
larger-than-life
legends like Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly, Earl
Campbell and Nolan Ryan.
Texas is The Dallas Cowboys, The Houston Astros and
The Texas Rangers
Texas is symphonies, musicals, concerts, ballets,
and boot scootin. Texas
is Drs. Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey. Texas is
Presidents Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, George Bush and George
W. Bush. Texas is NASA
and The McDonald Observatory. Texas is rich in oil
and natural gas Texas
is great companies like Texas Instruments, Dell
Computer and Compaq.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies
blackened with doves and leases full of deer. Texas
is the best Barbecue
anywhere. Period. Texas is chili cookoffs and
October Fest Texas is the
nicest people you'll ever meet. Anywhere. Not to
mention, the prettiest
girls. Texas is a place where cities shut down for
the Cowboys on Monday
Night Football and the streets are deserted during
church. Texas is the
best music, with the best musicians in the world.
Texas is beaches,
deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies..
If it isn't in Texas,
you don't need it. No one does anything bigger or
better.
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 20 feet. Do you know why? Our state
capitol is the only one
in the country that is taller than the capitol
building in D.C. We signed
that and the flag height in as part of the deal
when we came on. That's
the best part right there. When we came on, Texas
was its own country.
The Republic of Texas.
Aren't you proud to be a Texan? You should be!
Especially for the Kennefick Angel