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Wrong date in the title. It's early.

I'm sure the 3rd was great too, though.

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4 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

probably all hungover on the 3rd.

When you wake up and have to reconcile with what you did the night prior.

Went through Gonzales last weekend returning from Concan.  The true original meaning of TEXAS FIGHT!

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23 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

We did WHAT???

John H. Moore here. I’m all about havin’ fun. You know, start a fire in someone’s kitchen, maybe go to Gonzales, kick off a border war for independence...

Who here had Dr. Foley when on the 40 acres?  Has he cut his hair yet?

Pretty cool that you were wearing virus masks 40 years ago, man. Pretty damn prescient.

41 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

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Back in Brat's day, that's how you got your wife.

 

 

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7 hours ago, ztejas said:

When you wake up and have to reconcile with what you did the night prior.

That wasn’t the ramrod for the cannon, was it?

9 hours ago, ztejas said:

Wrong date in the title. It's early.

I'm sure the 3rd was great too, though.

 

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oh glad someone posted on it today.

Happy Birthday Stevie. Hope you are traveling well my G

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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

Pretty cool that you were wearing virus masks 40 years ago, man. Pretty damn prescient.

Whoever restored that dageurrotype in full color did a great job.

Did a day trip to Gonzales to see the cannon and drink beer at Shiner brewery. Nice little Friday. Highly recommend it.

Sorry for the redundancy of those that have seen me post this before.  My great-great-great grandfather is James Clinton Neill.  

Due to his previous experience in battle, Neill had some knowledge of artillery. In 1834 Neill and his family moved to Mina, modern day Bastrop. On September 28, 1835, when armed conflict with Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican troops seemed inevitable, he joined the Texian militia as a captain of artillery. On October 2, 1835, he saw action at the conflict at Gonzales. Texian John Holland Jenkins recorded that Neill actually fired the famed Gonzales "Come and Take It" cannon, crediting him with firing "the first shot of the Texas Revolution."

Slightly related but kind of cool and coincidental.  Colonel Neill is on my mom's side.  My father's side of the came to Texas a little later from Virginia.  Anyway, my great-grandmother on his side was a genealogist long before ancestery.com and the interwebs.  She wrote a book about their family history back in the 70's.  Anyway, one of the chapters is devoted to another grandfather, which I suppose would be a great to the 5th power.

His name is Colonel John Green.  

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/j-green.htm

Two interesting things about him. 

He fought in The Revolutionary War in the Culpeper Militia.  From what I gather, this unit was the first land-based group to use the "Don't Tread on Me" flag.  I believe a naval unit preceded Culpeper with its use.  Secondly, his body was reintered from Liberty Hall, VA to Arlington National Cemetery in 1911 making him (or I guess his body) the oldest member of Arlington.

What I find cool on a personal level is that I can trace my roots back directly to two of the most famous battle flags in US history.  "Don't Tread on Me" and "Come and Take It".

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So basically y’all stole some shit from the Mexicans and wouldn’t give it back. Got it. 

14 hours ago, staboner said:

oh glad someone posted on it today.

Happy Birthday Stevie. Hope you are traveling well my G

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I probably flew the Texas flag on the 3rd for two or three years because I got those two dates mixed up.

14 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

So basically y’all stole some shit from the Mexicans and wouldn’t give it back. Got it. 

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On 10/2/2020 at 5:01 PM, staboner said:

oh glad someone posted on it today.

Happy Birthday Stevie. Hope you are traveling well my G

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He died on my birthday in 1990 so 3 years later I returned the favor and got married on his birthday. 

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