Re: Star on your house or garage?

HeyBub wrote:
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The Lone Star flag represents the unique history of the state. Texas is the only state that was an independent republic at the time it joined the union. Texas became a state as a result of a treaty between soverign nations, not by conquest or purchase.

That, of course, is the sanitized version...having just finished Sherman's and Grant's memoirs over the winter with their careers both beginning in the period prior to the Civil War, there's more to learn... :)

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