Wow, does that bring back memories! My folks had Kingston Trio albums when I was a lad. I hadn't thought about them for years.
Good article.
Early in the siege, Travis wrote these words to the people of Texas: “Fellow Citizens & Compatriots: I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna...The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword… I have answered the demand with a cannon shot & our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat… VICTORY OR DEATH! P.S. The Lord is on our side...”
As you read those words, remember that Travis and the others did not have the National Education Association (NEA) telling them how intolerant and narrow-minded their notions of honor and patriotism were. They didn’t have the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) telling them they were a hate group. A hostile media did not constantly castigate them as a bunch of wild-eyed extremists. As schoolchildren, they were not taught that their forefathers were nothing more than racist jerks. The TSA didn’t have them on a terrorist watch list. Neither did they have 501c3 pastors constantly filling their hearts and minds with this imbecilic “Obey-the-government-no-matter-what” misinterpretation of Romans chapter 13.
So true. We have allowed our entire culture to be weakened by voices who shun the examples of our forebears, even as they benefit from their blood sacrifice.
The startling truth is the farther we are from those that actually did battle to attain our liberty, the closer we are to tyranny.
We just don't or can't pass on to the proceeding generations that toil of those that were under the boot of tyranny. One must experience it first hand, unfortunately, to grasp that which will be lost. For over a century, we've hid out the writings of the Founders so that our children are concerned only with the follies the progressive left presents.
I now totally understand why our nation's first President George Washington was opposed to political parties. It allowed special interests to fully fund each side until both were the same side on the issue. Never again will I ever advocate for anything short of an individual that is immersed in the principles of liberty.