Texas Drifter Portrait Of Three Leaders
Marshall’s Law Dateline – Following writing exercise distinguishes Judeo-Christian leaders who serve volunteer followers from: self proclaimed false prophets using selfish, hedonistic, sadistic, greedy, thieving Marxist-fascist ideological mercenaries to become tyrants and slave masters. Reader can reference All Right Magazine “Yes Jenny There Is A Liberal Monster” for examples of self proclaimed false prophets trying to become tyrants and slave masters.
NON-BREAKING NEWS – Patience is a virtue when endlessly repeating same warning different ways until Judeo-Christian patriots understand impending danger. Now non-breaking news: Obama’s never waste a crisis attitude, intendeds to create sufficient domestic anarchy and threats to national security to justify suspending America’s Constitution and due process rules. Obama’s martial law is total contradiction too Marshall’s Law.
Translation of just another Texas Drifter warning: patriotic citizens who doubt Obama and his anti Judeo-Christian America Constitution feral haters will not act as suggested; seem to think like optimistic tenderfoots ignoring not only history, but are also likely to expect paranoid, sadistic, homicidal rapists not to murder their victims. Doubters can reference Texas Drifter’s training manual” “Spy As A Verb: Art and Ethics of Surveillance”.
Back to “Portrait Of three Leaders” writing exercise; just another exiguous effort to paint with words like artist paint with colors. Verbal portraits of three leaders, starts with one historical fact, followed by really short non-fiction play.
First Colonel Travis of Alamo fame, what was perhaps the most intense concern of this leader on whose shoulders rested lives of one hundred eighty plus volunteer soldiers as well as the fate of Texas unborn Republic?
Answer can be found in last letter Travis wrote from crumbling walls of old church:
To David Ayers
March 3, 1836
Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make for him a splendid fortune; but if the country be lost and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country.
The letter to David Ayers is the last known letter written by Travis before the fall of the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836. William Barret Travis died at his post on the cannon platform at the northeast corner of the fortress. He was 26 years old.
Second non-fiction really short play: Price Of Honor.
Background: Captain John was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, on July 13, 1729. Captain John played a prominent role in the first battle of the War for Independence, as leader of the volunteer American militia known as the Minutemen.
In April, British General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts decided to confiscate weapons stored in the village of Concord and capture patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock reportedly living in Lexington. On the night of April 18 Captain John received warning of the approach of the king's soldiers.
Act I: (afternoon April 18)
Patriot Leader (enters): Relax Captain John. Decision has been made to assign you command of Lexington militia. Before you respond, others may seem more qualified. You were chosen, one for your devotion and loyalty to following orders. Second militia members respect you and will do exactly when and what you command.
Captain John: Should I ask my young scout to leave?
Patriot Leader: No he can report to me when time is right. Your orders, do not fire on British troops until after they fire on you and your militia. Have something to say?
Captain John: sir sounds like you are ordering me to conduct myself like a coward and watch my friends and neighbors die.
Patriot Leader: Sir the very future of our yet unborn republic could very well depend on when you order your militia to fire. Tomorrow’s events will determine how fellow Americans and foreign governments view our struggle for freedom and liberty.
Firing on British troops first will be remembered as provocation by criminals and traitors. Firing on British troops after British fire on you and your militia is citizens engaging in self defense; a concept understood by all Judeo-Christians.
I am asking you to place serving America’s unborn republic before your own vanity. Understand?
Captain John: Yes Sir, I will not command my volunteer militia not to return fire until I fire or give the order.
Patriot Leader: Good, may our Heavenly Father be with you and your militia, (turns to young scout) I will be expecting brutally truthful report from you tomorrow.
ACT II: (April 19 Report To Patriot Leader)
Scout’s Report To Patriot Leader: The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The British troops approached rapidly in platoons, with a officer leading on horseback. The officer came up to within about two rods of the centre of the company and halted. The officer then swung his sword, and said, 'Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, or you are all dead men. Fire!' Some guns were fired by the British but no person was killed or hurt, being probably charged only with powder.
Captain John ordered every man to take care of himself. The company immediately dispersed; and while the company was dispersing and leaping over the wall, the second platoon of the British fired and killed some of our men. There was not a gun fired by any one of Captain John's company, I was so situated that I would have known it, had any thing of the kind taken place before a total dispersion of our company.
ACT III
Captain To Grieving Woman: Let me say …
Grieving Woman (interrupts): Do not say another word to me. My husband, father of my children, my only son is missing and thought to be prisoner of British, and the man you called your best friend is dead because you were too cowardly to give order to fire on British before they got close enough to kill friends and neighbors under your command.
Captain John: (as turning to walk away): Madam that may very well be true.
Young Scout: Mother, we have to talk!
Captain John: Scout this is time for grieving not talking understand?
EPILOGUE: Now you my reader hopefully understand how one heart breaking loyal order should have become known as shot not heard around the world; not “shot heard around the world”.
So writes Texas Drifter, almost forgot about third leader portrait. I am all writ out, so reader’s assignment is create your own verbal portrait of Governor Walker of Wisconsin.
Research Reference notes for reader: Scout’s Details of report based on excerpts from affidavit by Twenty-three-year-old Sylvanus Wood who was one of the Lexington militia who answered the call that spring morning. Several years after the event he committed his recollection to paper in an affidavit sworn before a Justice of the Peace which was first published in 1858: I, Sylvanus Wood, of Woburn, in the county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy-four years, do testify and say that on the morning of the 19th of April, 1775, I was an inhabitant of Woburn, living with Deacon Obadiah Kendall.
Part of affidavit includes: I have been intimately acquainted with the inhabitants of Lexington, and particularly with those of Captain John's company, and, with one exception, I have never heard any of them say or pretend that there was any firing at the British from Captain John's company, or any individual in it until within a year or two. One member of the company told me, many years since, that, after John's company had dispersed, and he was at some distance, he gave them 'the guts of his gun.
