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Lamar Blvd.<br>D - 109 - Box 360<br>Austin, Texas 78704 </center> </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><br> <strong> <!-- </span></p>--> </form> <br> <font color="#96510E" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">COMING EVENTS </font> <!-- <p align="left"><font color="#827EA0" size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>Friday, March 2nd</strong></font><font color="#9D7B49" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <strong>9:00 am</strong> - Texas State Cemetery Program<br> <strong>11:30 noon</strong> - Capitol Celebration<strong></font></p> --> <!-- TIMES & DATES --> <p align="left"><font color="#9D7B49" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#827EA0" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong> Friday, March 2nd </span></strong><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><br> <strong> 9:00 AM </strong> </strong></strong> - Texas State Cemetery Program </span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:#827EA0'></span></strong><br> <strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'> NOON </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'> - Capitol Celebration in the Capitol Rotunda <br></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#827EA0'> Saturday, March 3rd </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><br><strong> </strong> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><strong><u> 8:00 AM </u></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'> - 5K Run up Congress Ave.<br> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><strong><u> 9:30 AM </u></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'> - Parade up Congress Ave. <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#827EA0'>Sunday, March 4th</span></strong><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'> <strong> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff0000'><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><strong><u> 2:00 PM</u></strong> </strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'> - Alamo Ceremony on the South Capitol Grounds </span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#827EA0'>Monday, March 12th</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#9D7B49'><br> <strong> 11:00 AM</strong> - Jay L. Johnson Memorial Celebrity Golf Tournament at Falconhead Golf Club</span></p></p> <!-- <p><center><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#000000'> <a href="http://www.celebratetexas.org/March2ndFlyer.pdf"> More on Austin Events</a></center> --> <p><center><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#000000'> <a href="http://www.celebratetexas.org/TexasIDEvents10.pdf"> More on State Wide Events</a></center> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"><div align="center"> <img src="images/jayquote_14.gif" width=340 height=200><br> <a href="jayj04.html" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Jay Johnson Quote','','images/jayquoteroll_21.gif',1)"><img src="images/jayquote_21.gif" name="Jay Johnson Quote" width="340" height="20" border="0"></a><br> <img src="images/jayquote_22.gif" width="340" height="18"><br><BR> <img src="images/sponsoranim4.gif" width="281" height="156"> </div><BR> <!-- FLAG --> <p align="center"><font color="#827EA0" size="4" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>This Year's Flag of the Texas Revolution<br><br>The Sarah Dodson Flag <p align="center"><img src="images/Dodsonx.jpg" ></p><BR> <p align="center"><font color="#827EA0" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">... Sarah (Bradley) Dodson's flag was made about September 1835 and possibly antedated the "Come and Take It" flag. She made the flag at Harrisburg, where her husband, Archelaus Bynum Dodson, assisted in forming a company of soldiers. The flag apparently consisted of three horizontal squares of blue, white, and red, with a white lone star centered in the blue square. Some illustrations of the Dodson flag suggest that the term "square" was not meant to be taken literally and that the squares were actually three vertical rectangles similar to the bars in the Mexican flag. The white star allegedly symbolized that Texas was the only Mexican state in which the star of liberty was rising. The Dodson flag and the 1839 national flag of the Republic of Texas are very similar; in the latter the white and red squares are altered into a white stripe over a red stripe. James Ferguson carried the Dodson flag as far as Cibolo Creek, and it may have been carried at the battle of Concepción and the siege of Bexar. There are also reports that the Dodson flag was flown, along with a bloody-arm flag (possibly either the Dimmitt or Brown flag), over the cabin where the Convention of 1836 met. <p align="center"><font color="#827EA0" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Charles A. Spain, Jr., "FLAGS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/msf02), accessed December 05, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. <!-- <p align="center"><font color="#827EA0" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong><p align="center">The Texas Navy Flag</p><p> For several years prior to and during the Texas Revolution, the New Orleans shipping firm of McKinney, Williams and Company used this flag as their company ensign. The flag was cleverly designed to resemble the national flag of the United States, in order to fool potential enemies into thinking the McKinney & Williams ship was an official ship of the United States. This flag was flown by the McKinney & Williams steamship, <i>Yellow Stone</i>, when it ferried the Texas Army across the flooded Brazos River to Groce’s Plantation on the way to San Jacinto. <p> In October 1835, the provisional government of Texas, authorized the creation of the Texas Navy. The design of the McKinney, Williams and Company flag was so successful that it became the first flag of the Texas Navy by executive order issued by President David G. Burnet on April 9, 1836. Burnet’s executive order called for a flag that is “union blue, star central, thirteen stripes prolonged, alternate red and white.” <p> Following the successful conclusion of the revolution, on December 10, 1836 the Congress of the Republic of Texas formally adopted Burnet’s Texas Navy flag as the official standard for maritime military service. On January 25, 1839 the Congress of the Republic of Texas revisited the question of national symbolism. They abolished the use of the previous national and maritime standards and adopted a new national flag for Texas which we still use today as our state flag. <p> --> <p align="center"><font color="#827EA0" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">For more on the Flags of the Texas Revolution visit the entry of the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/msf01"> Handbook of Texas Online.</a> <p align="right"> Col. Charles M. 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