I grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas when I was a kid. One of my mother's friends had lost a son in Vietman and when he came home, everyone and I mean just about everyone in that town came to pay their respects. Of course that was a different time. A lot people here in Illinois are all wrapped up into themselves and don't care about others. Just my .02 worth.
Anyway, I received this email tonight and thought I'd share it with some of the good people on here. Thanks.........Don
Amazing. I just read a book that a friend I work with gave me. It's called The Devils Sandbox. It's about an Oregon National Guard Unit that deployed to Iraq and the battles they were in. It also talked about how some of the local people and the newspapers turned their backs on these men. My friends brother in law retired from running this group and his 2 sons, my friends nephews, were also members. One of the young men was killed.
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Re: Got to luv Texas....
"You ask me what I like about Texas
I tell you it's the wide open spaces
It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande.
It's the Llano Estacado,
It's the Brazos and the Colorado;
Spirit of the people down here who share this land!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand
It's a quarter for the jukebox boys
Play the Sons of the Mother Lovin' Bunkhouse Band
You ask me what I like about Texas
It's the big timber round Nacogdoches
It's driving El Camino Real into San Antone
It's the Riverwalk in Mi Tierra
Dancing to the Cotton-eyed Joe
It's stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox boys
Play The Son's of the Mother Lovin' Bunkhouse Band
Hey, you ask me what I like about Texas
It's Blue Bonnets and indian paint brushes
Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs
It's body surfing the Frio
It's Saturday night in Del Rio!
Driving across the border for some cultural exchange!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox boys
Plays The Son's of the Mother Lovin' Bunkhouse Band
It's another burrito, with a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter to four, the jukebox boy
Play The Son's of the Mother Lovin' Bunkhouse Band
You ask me what I like about Texas
I could tell you...but it would take all night long.."
- Gary P. Nunn
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible - T. E. Lawrence
Showing Respect.....Got to luv Texas....
Rest in peace little buddies
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