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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Sam Wants You! San Jacinto Fundraiser

Selective Service System of the San Jacinto Battleground Association issues a

CALL TO ARMS, TO ARMS !!!

to support the SAN JACINTO VOLUNTEERS

The Interim President of the Republic of Texas, To GREETING:

You are hereby ordered to report to General Sam Houston, Commander in Chief of the Texas Army

At: the home of Edd and Nina Hendee, 7 Radney Estates, Houston, TX 77024 At 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2008 For cocktails, dinner and auctions – silent and otherwise. The purpose of this call-up is to help offset expenses of the San Jacinto Volunteers as they bring history to life each year in re-enacting the Battle of San Jacinto at the battleground. Business attire. The favor of a reply by January 10 is requested. Jerry Tubbs, Commander, San Jacinto Volunteers IMPORTANT NOTICE (Read each paragraph carefully) TO ALL REGISTRANTS: Sure to be entertaining is K.R. Wood and his band, Camp Cookie and the Cow Camp Review. Hear Wood and cohorts, “Dangerous” Doug Taylor and “Lonesome” Greg Lowrey, play and harmonize old cowboy songs from the Sons of the Pioneers, Bob Wills and others. Wood will also conduct a brief live auction. Dinner is from Ed and Nina Hendee’s “Taste of Texas”–juicy prime steaks and all the trimmins’ as only they can fix them. Auction items? Historic cruise to Morgan’s Point; travel the route the Mexican Army took on its return to Mexico through the Mar de Lodo (Sea of Mud); enjoy an expert tour of the San Jacinto Battleground; fight in the middle of the 2008 Battle of San Jacinto re-enactment (appropriately clad and armed); own a prototype Texas carbine that’s actually been fired at the Alamo and San Jacinto; possess a hand-crafted Bowie knife; take a private hardhat tour of the Battleship Texas; hang on your wall a genuine invitation to the opening of the San Jacinto Monument from April 1939; entertain thirty of your closest friends at a chuck wagon dinner; and more. Bring your invitation and designer Cliff Gillock will autograph it for you. IF YOUR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITION IS SUCH THAT YOU WISH TO ATTEND, PLEASE SO INDICATE ON THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE..

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