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Happy Texas Independence Day!

I have relatives that fought at San Jacinto.

Native Texian.

I grew up in California, and I lived most of my adult life there. But I was never proud of being Californian. I didn't have a Californian identity. But Texas is different. I have adopted her as my state, and she has adopted me as her son. I love being "from" Texas.

What a day to get my CHL in the mail!

nacskins wrote: What a day to get my CHL in the mail!

cooool Congrats, and you'll remember the day

A couple old timers in a coffee shop decided to have a bet at my expense as a youngster. They were debating whether young'uns knew anything about history and likewise they asked me "who did we win our independence from?". I told them Mexico. One laughed as the other pulled out his billfold. I explained... I'm a Texan. We won our independence from Mexico... They both stopped laughing and I left. I still don't know how their bet worked out.

happy 176th

I want to give a special shout out to texanron for starting this thread, and RPB for the link to the Texas Declaration of Indepence. I'm a sorta recent transplant to Texas, so my Texas history is a bit weak. But I read this thread shortly after it appeared and got edumacated. Then last week when some out-of-state friends were visiting and we were at The Alamo, they were asking questions about when the battle was fought there and other things related to Texas' battle for independence, and I actually could share some of my newly-acquired knowledge. Thank you for helping me represent this republic/state in an honorable fashion.

LikesShinyThings wrote:I'm a sorta recent transplant to Texas, so my Texas history is a bit weak.

For us transplants, we can take pride that of the known 189 defenders of the Alamo that perished, the vast majority were transplants like us. 11 known native Texians gave their lives also. Of course there's later info that as many as 257 died defenders died, with names and states of origin unknown.