Here's another one where the US Air Force was the travel agent, first as an Air Force brat (Dad was stationed at Carswell AFB at the time, before heading to Japan and the Korean peninsula in late 1951) up to the time when I got to spend one whole year in one school, my senior year of high school in Everman. In between were postings in Tennessee, United Kingdom, and various places in Texas. Then, naturally enough, I enlisted in the Air Force when I graduated from high school, rather than wait for the draft to grab me for Vietnam. Met my wife, Pamela, while I was in Hong Kong on leave from Vietnam (hah! Wasn't I smart to enlist rather than be drafted? ), then we domiciled in North Dakota, Turkey, and the Philippines before getting out of the Air Force and returning to Fort Worth, where it all began for me.
Though Pamela was born a British subject in Calcutta, India and was living/going to school in Hong Kong when we met, she adopted Texas as her home with great enthusiasm as well until she died earlier this year.
I still have a Texas "passport" somewhere - curio from some place or another from my younger days.
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n5wmk wrote:New Mexico birth certificate, but I consider myself a Native Texan. My ancestors (both Dad's and Mom's side) immigrated to Texas from Germany in the 1800s. Everyone subsequent was born in Texas. My parents lived in the small community of Progress, outside of Muleshoe in the Texas Panhandle. There wasn't an obstetrician in Muleshoe - the closest was in Clovis, NM - about 20 miles away. That's where they went when it was time for me to show up. So I spent the first 3 or 4 days of my life in New Mexico. I've lived and worked in Texas all my life, other than the 8 years I spent in the USAF.
That's Texas according to the maps I use!
As for me, I was born in Fort Worth, raised in the suburbs, and now live in Fort Worth. I made it all the way to Denton for a few years during college.
You know I really hate that Davy Crockett had to die at the Alamo , You know he would have been in the republic's government .
Davy Crockett's speech to congress ;
Colonel Davy Crockett Delivering His Celebrated Speech to Congress on the State of Finances, State Officers, and State Affairs in General
"The broken fenced state o' the nation, the broken banks, broken hearts, and broken pledges o' my brother Congressman here around me, has riz the boiler o' my indignation clar up to the high pressure pinte, an' therefore I have riz to let off the steam of my hull hog patriotism, without round-about- ation, and without the trimmins. The truth wants no trimmins for in her clar naked state o' natur she's as graceful as a suckin colt i' the sunshine. Mr. Speaker! What in the name o' kill-sheep-dog rascality is the country a- comin' to? Whar's all the honor? no whar! an thar it'll stick! Whar's the state revenue? Every whar but whar it ought to be!
"Why, Mr. Speaker, don't squint with horror, when I tell you that last Saturday mornin' Uncle Sam hadn't the first fip to give to the barbet! The banks suspend payment, and the starving people suspend themselves by ropes! Old Currency is flat on his back, the bankers have sunk all funds in the safe arth o' speculation, and some o' these chaps grinnin' around me are as deep in the mud as a heifer in a horse-pond!
"Whar's the political honesty o' my feller congressmen? why, in bank bills and five acre speeches! Whar's all thar patriotism? in slantendicular slurs, challenges, and hair trigger pistols! Whar's all thar promises? every whar! Whar's all thar perfomances on 'em? no whar, and the poor people bellering arter 'em everywhere like a drove o' buffaloes arter their lazy keepers that, like the officers here, care for no one's stomach, but their own etarnal intarnals!
"What in the nation have you done this year? why, waste paper enough to calculate all your political sins upon, and that would take a sheet for each one o' you as long as the Mississippi. and as broad as all Kentucky. You've gone ahead in doin' nothin' backwards, till the hull nation's done up. You've spouted out a Mount Etny o' gas, chawed a hull Allegheny o' tobacco, spit a Niagary o' juice, told a hail storm o' lies, drunk a Lake Superior o' liquor, and all, as you say, for the good o' the nation; but I say, I swar, for her etarnal bankruptification!
"Tharfore, I move that the ony way to save the country is for the hull nest o' your political weasels to cut stick home instanterly, and leave me to work Uncle Sam's farm, till I restore it to its natural state o' cultivation, and shake off these state caterpillars o' corruption. Let black Dan Webster sittin there at the tother end o' the desk turn Methodist preacher; let Jack Calhoun settin' right afore him with his hair brushed back in front like a huckleberry bush in a hurrycane, after Old Hickory's topknot, turn horse- jockey. Let Harry Clay sittin' thar in the corner with his arms folded about his middle like grape vines around a black oak, go back to our old Kentuck an' improve o' lawyers an' other black sheep. Let old Daddy Quincy Adams sittin' right behind him thar, go home to Massachusetts, an' write political primers for the suckin' politicians; let Jim Buchanan go home to Pennsylvania an' smoke long nine, with the Dutchmen. Let Tom Benton, bent like a hickory saplin with ull rollin', take a roll home an' make candy "mint drops" for the babies:--for they've worked Uncle Sam's farm with the all-scratchin' harrow o' rascality, 'till it's as gray as a stone fence, as barren as barked clay, and as poor as as turkey fed on gravel stones!
"And, to conclude, Mr. Speaker, the nation can no more go ahead under such a state o'things, than a fried eel can swim upon the steam o' a tea kettle; if it can, then take these yar legs for yar hall pillar
Born and lived in Texas all my life minus four years in the Air Force. 1/10th Cherokee, so part of me is REAL native Texan, even before there was a Texas. lol. Mostly Irish, but my maternal grandmother is from Beruit, Lebanon too, Beruity. She turned 100 this last January. Came to Texas when she was 7.
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), then we domiciled in North Dakota, Turkey, and the Philippines before getting out of the Air Force and returning to Fort Worth, where it all began for me.
