Coach,

When you were at the International Boundary Marker you were 9.1 miles away from the Moses Rose grave.

Tom--

A long time since I read up on the Alamo.

Memory indicates that somebody, maybe more than one, was sent to bring help.

Not sure of their names if they are in the books I have someplace. Maybe Moses Rose was one of them?

Larry

I have helped completely destroy the original subject but, here we are.

When Col. William Barrett Travis drew a line in the sand and asked everyone that wanted to stay and fight to the death to cross the line, Moses Rose declined and left the Alamo. That's all I have to say about that.

I knew it was pretty close.

Tom,
You did not destroy the original subject,it is just a bunch of folks enjoying the subject and letting it drift a little bit.

Pretty much akin to folks sitting around the campfire/fishing pole or plinking with their BB guns.

There I got us back on the thread.

I remember as a kid,it was not at all uncommon to see kids riding their bicycles with their BB guns across the handle bars going down to the dump/landfill to plink at cans and bottles.

And this was right in sight of the Empire State Bldg that was across the Hudson River about 8 miles away!!

I watched the movie A Christmas Story (again) last night,brought back memories of many years ago.
Wayne

Here's an article telling the story of Daisy and the Red Ryder BB gun.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/a...126f90d263c9bf8

Larry,
Very interesting.

Wayne

Interesting to read all this...

I don't think I ever owned a BB gun. But using money from a paper route ordered a single-shot .22 from Sears. Came in the mail...no way today could a 12-year-old do such!

Carried it openly whenever I went to demolish many tin cans and similar targets in a nearby dump. No way to do that today either. Cops would be sicced on such a culprit promptly.

A while ago an acquaintance broadcast an email of antigun type. I can understand people's concerns about the stupid harmful things being done with guns, fists, knives, feet, clubs, road rage today. You name it and it is being done.

But my reply to this friend was along the lines of recalling when my friends and I all had BB guns, .22 rifles, slingshots, pocketknives, hunting knives, even bayonets. (If there was a situation deserving of violence, it was settled with fists.)

We never shot or stabbed or clubbed anyone. We never destroyed property. We never had law enforcement called on us or descend on us a la a SWAT squad.

Pocket knives in school were not an issue, no one got expelled for having such.

Times have changed. Social standards have changed. Violence for the sake of violence harms a lot of innocent people. Much of that violence is excused by one supposed disadvantage or perceived wrong or another.

Larry

When I was 17 I ordered a 45 caliber Colt Single Action knock off made by Hawes, probably in south America. I sent a postal money order to the seller. I think I saw the ad in a True Magazine or something like that. I took delivery at the train station freight office. This was just before the 1968 gun control act that resticted all of the above. Btw, it was well made but not even close to the first year second generation Colt SSA I inhierited from my uncle.

was that a "BB gun"???