Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just
for a second...that picture, with the Panhandle, the Gulf Coast, 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 a
picture of Texas for him 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
after a second or two (maybe), 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 in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone. Did
you ever hear anyone say, "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. One hundred, eighty-three 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 to fight and
die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William
B. Travis and James Bowie and Davy 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, and the Astrodome.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments
and Compaq.
Texas is NASA.
T exas 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 to watch the local high
school football game on Friday nights or the Cowboys on Monday Night
Football.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and
prairies, and modern cities.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson, Buddy
Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry,
Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Denton
Cooley, Michael DeBakey, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson,
and George W. Bush. (oops! I guess everyone is entitled to one mistake!)
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,
California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17
feet. But you fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in
Longview at 20 feet and the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20
feet. Do you know why? Because Texas is the only state that was a
republic before it became a state.
Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than
the capitol building in Washington, D.C. We can divide our state into
five states if we want to! We included these things as part of the deal
when we came on.
Also, down here, being a Texan is as high as being an American.
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