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charles
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« on: March 29, 2012, 11:23:18 am » |
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RL, i served in the texas army national guard. where on the uniform does it say tx other than the unit patch? the branch tag says US ARMY, not TX ARMY. I feel that everybody ought to serve a minimum of 3yrs in the armed services unless medical conditions prevent it, but this is a country of freedoms, freedom to choose not to join the armed services. i spent 2 tours in iraq, 1 tour in bosnia, 1 tour on the tx mexico border for border security. I have not seen where the tx governor ask for the tx guard to be called upon except when the shuttle colombia went down or a natural disaster such as hurricane katrina, but the shuttle was a joint op with state and federal agencies. the boder security was ordered by the federal government.
T-Bob, you had your reasons not to join. i have no disrespect or look down on you for not doing it, as long as you dont think you are better than a soldier, which i know you dont do. i feel the same way about tx and wish tx would drop all ties with the united states if this country is gonna continue to go down the crapper. why should the feds drag our state down with them. i do see RL's point of view as to what does a sports tat have to do with tx pride, it just means you have pride for that paticular sports team. what about the houston oilers? they are now the texans or something like that. i dont follow sports so i cant give you their names. the tx flag should fly equally as high as the american flag, since we won our independence and joined the union later, not bought from another country to expand to lands of the U.S. but on the note, the original 13 colonies/states should be allowed to fly higher than the us flag since they laid the foundation for independence.
if we had a worth while governor, we need to susceed from the united states and be our own country, which we can support ourselves with access to international shipping via international water national pipleines and intrastate/interstate highways, where we can levee import export taxes and toll usage for our roads and have a surrounding states recipricating statute of commerce.
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