K. Lee Lerner's Blog, page 7
March 27, 2021
Rest under Texas skies, Larry McMurtry.
“It’s been quite a party ain’t it?” – Gus McCrae. (Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove. Simon & Schuster, 1985.) One last adventure two aging Texas Rangers are Montana bound Cowboys*, Indians, and whores An Iliad of heroes *Real cowboys– not the mythologized, cleaned-up, Roy Rogers types,nor the modern “hat and […]
Remember Goliad
One last adventure two aging Texas Rangers are Montana bound Cowboys*, Indians, and whores An Iliad of heroes Just weeks after the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, the Mexican army under the command of the dictator Santa Anna defeated vastly outnumbered soldiers of the nascent Texas Army under the command […]
Remember Goliad!
Prisoners of War Fannin’s men at Goliad brutally murdered Remember Goliad and Remember the Alamo! Just weeks after the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, the Mexican army under the command of the dictator Santa Anna defeated vastly outnumbered soldiers of the nascent Texas Army under the command of Col. James Walker […]
March 6, 2021
Remember the Alamo, but also remember Joe
It is right that we remember the Alamo; It is right that we remember heroes; It is right that we remember valor, sacrifice, and honor; It is right that we remember the cost of independence; Remember! On March 6, 1836, 185 years ago today. Mexican Dictator Santa Anna ordered his forces laying siege to […]
December 8, 2020
Chuck Yeager. No Bridge Too Low
Mortal flesh grounded yet his spirit will live on Now, like Sparta’s myths, his legend will grow with time The voice and creed will live on December 8, 2020 Pensacola FL– Bravo zulu maximus for Chuck Yeager on his service, a life fully and well lived, and for his “no bridge too low” approach to […]
