Jack of Harts

It is impossible to overestimate how much September 11, 2001 affected Texas. Texas soldiers had always marched to war and came back having seen the world outside their State. And when one of their own, now President of the United States, said that the whole world was going to hear from America after terrorists brought down the Twin Towers in New York City, the Texans cheered and went out to fight again. They came home after seeing the world, meeting new and interesting people as the old saying goes, and then killing them. They came home from fighting against the Islamic Jihad to a nation bitterly divided by partisan politics, and some might say they became disillusioned. Others say they simply began to recognize the world around them. Renewed calls to simply secede from America, as proponents claimed they had the right to under their original annexation, made national news, though generated little actual action. But as the years and decades passed by, Texas made quiet preparations to make certain that they would remain standing should Bad Things happen in the other States.