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December's Soldiers

Marvin Tyson

Marvin Tyson is a lifelong Texan of many generations (his first confirmed ancestors arrived in Texas about 1820-24). He was born in Brown County in 1949. His family was poor while he was growing up. He got his first real job when he was eleven years old working at a Corpus Christi marina for a dollar a day! That was seven days a week when school was out, and it seemed like a ton of money to him. He also got tips from customers, that could more than double his salary at times. That let him buy school clothes for the next year and take in a weekly movie (twenty-five cents with a coke and popcorn or candy!). He served a tour in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader with the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne Divisions. When he came home, he worked anywhere he could find a job until he taught himself how to weld and went into the construction industry as a pipe welder. Marvin went to work at the Amoco Refinery in Texas City where he worked thirty-four years as a welder, supervisor, and apprentice coordinator before retiring in 2009. Marvin was asked to come out of retirement last year to develop a pipefitter and welder program for Alvin Community College where he remained until October 2015. God Bless Texas!

The governor/president was glad the delegates had seen fit to forgo any retributive language in the Declaration; there was no good to come of making a list of “evils” done by their former partners. Instead, they made a simple statement; “Knowing that Nature and Nature’s God has bestowed the right on all people to govern their own affairs, and to chart their own course into the future, for themselves and their posterity, we declare that Texas is henceforth and forevermore a Free and Independent, Sovereign Nation/State, and has all the powers and authorities of any other Sovereign Nation/State upon the Earth. We rely upon Almighty God and his protection to keep it so.” The powerful men who approved that Declaration of Independence would soon learn that the future of Texas and its liberty would be placed in the hands of a new Texan and very pregnant former Washington D.C. call girl, and a handful of old cattlemen.

adults interested in politics, military history buffs, action/drama readers typically adult white males

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Four vietnam era soldiers walking toward the viewer with a Texas flag as a background