Hey TEXANS!!!

[Texasgal]

HAPPY TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!! :bounce:

[Ron Green]

1. Remember Goliad! Remember the Alamo!

[Justitia]

2. link -TX Declaration of Independence, could be written in the present day

http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/tdoi.htm

Unbelievable parallels....

[sonias]

3. How timely

I'll kick this and recommend it too.

Happy Indy Day Y'all!

Sonia

[AnneD]

4. In this part of TX

we celebrate San Jacinto Day....

[VelmaD]

5. I am big fan of both holidays

:)

[NoPasaran]

7. Of course

You get them off!

:-)

[VelmaD]

12. Hey...I was at work yesterday...

on Texas Independence Day.

But I always take off on Lyndon Johnson's birthday. :)

[TomInTib]

6. This day is always special to me. My family was the first Anglo...

family of record in what is now known as Texas. Settling in present-day Angelina County in 1630, our folks witnessed every development (good and bad) from then to the present. I am the only member of my extended family who doesn't reside within the borders of the Greatest State in the Union.

But I can feel the tug of the land every time the airplane crosses the Red River.

!Viva Tejas!

[acmejack]

8. Well Tom, I'll hold you in new respect!

Even though you are a defector! 1630, wow what a family history you must have! It must provide some fascinating reading.

[cosmik debris]

9. The Cantu family

Arrived in Texas in 1575. The Anglos showed up 50 years later and started stealing stuff from the Spaniards. For the most part they have quit stealing, but they haven't quit bragging about being pioneers of Texas.

Some of us celebrate the day Texas was stolen from its original owners. Some call that Texas Independence Day. I am glad you can be happy with your history. Are you as anxious to acknowledge the death and destruction visited on the original Texans driven out by your Anglo ancestors?

[muse]

10. Any Native Americans want to chime in?

The Spanish and Mexicans did a number on them prior to any Anglo conquest of hispanics in Texas.

[cosmik debris]

11. The Dutch/Irish branch of my family

The Dutch/Irish branch of my family left Texas in 1839 because it was easier to go to Tennessee and buy land that was pre-stolen rather than stay in Texas and steal it themselves. Armed robbery was not a particularly healthy endeavor, and Comanches were not the best choice of victims at that time!

[Ron Green]

13. I don't think I'd admit to being a Karankawa, though.

They were a pretty broke-down bunch of folks, from beginning to end.