If you are a REAL TEXAN

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This is the best one that I've seen regarding Texas.

Love, Charlotte

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TEXAS

When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions

like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got

a bunch of guns, eh?"

They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched

Dallas.

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 might

get it maybe after a second or two, 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 planet, there is a person

who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on

a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little 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 Ana at San Jacinto.

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 the Big Bend.

Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the

Texas Hill Country.

Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South

Texas.

Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.

Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.

Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.

Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in

Arlington and the Astrodome.

Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton

Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis

Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top,

Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, George

Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush.

Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments

and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE,! Home of the F-16 Jet

Fighter and the JSF Fighter.

Texas is NASA.

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 towns and cities shut down to watch the

local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the

Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San

Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches,

deserts, lake s and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern

cities.

If it isn't in Texas, you probably 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, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it

is, goes at 17 feet. You fly t! he Stars and Stripes in front of

Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone

Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why?

Because it is the only state that was a republic before it

became a state.

Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here.

Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than

the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our

state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We

included these things as part of the deal when we came on.

That's the best part, right there.

Texas even has its own power grid!!

If you are a REAL TEXAN you won't even need to be told to pass

this on!