America Could Learn a Thing or Two from Texas By Colonel Ken Allard

In the era of political correctness, it’s always surprising they still allow us to celebrate Thanksgiving. But until the PC police catch up, know what I’m most thankful for this week? That God allowed me to live long enough to become a Texan.

It’s not because I haven’t lived anywhere else. I grew up just north of Baltimore, living there until college and the draft took me elsewhere. The military moved me around a lot too but after almost two years of living in Texas, I have learned to accept the grackle (graculis horribilis) as State Bird and the other day, even helped my wife hang a picture of longhorns going off to water. But the real reason why a veteran – especially one recently returned to his Christian roots - feels so at home here is faith, faith in God and faith in country, established by the very first generation of Texans in that embattled mission called the Alamo.

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