NEWSTALK 860 » texas revolution http://ksfa860.com Tue, 21 May 2013 21:00:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Happy Texas Independence Day – Ya'll http://ksfa860.com/happy-texas-independence-day/ http://ksfa860.com/happy-texas-independence-day/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:35:59 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=49734 Today, March 2nd, is Texas Independence Day. The 176th anniversary of the day in 1836, when a group of Anglo colonists gathered at a place they named Washington on the Brazos and agreed it was time for the area called "Tejas" to declare its independence from Mexico.

Today's Lufkin Daily News has an editorial that sums up the meaning and importance of this day as well any we've ever read.  We can't improve on it, so here it is in its entirety.

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