It was 178 years ago, March 2, 1836, that elected delegates gathered inside an unfinished frame building in Washington-on-the-Brazos to formally establish the Republic of Texas by signing the Declaration of Texas Independence. As these men, many of whom had been in Texas for less than a year, gathered to sign their names, somewhere around 200 Texans were under siege at the Alamo. Like the men who fell to Santa Ana's troops, the signers knew that failure would mean their deaths; they were essentially signing their own personal death warrants should the Revolution fail. With that one step, they married their personal fates with the fate of the new Republic.
There was no turning back. Failure was not an option.
Maybe history will repeat one can still wish right or do I need a permit for that?
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