Wow . . . so many things to which to respond!
First, I agree with you, Ringo and Stumpy, regarding not trusting Hollywood or our school systems for telling the truth. Recently, I picked up a history book at a local school and was browsing through it. Imagine my surprise when it was discussing how the ships of the United Nations were streaming across the Pacific to defeat the Japanese. Now I know we had help from the Brits and Aussies, but the United Nations wasn't even in existence until after WWII (BTW, we have been homeschooling since 1986, all six kids 
(that's the Mrs. after a busy day)!).
Second, we've got a whole pile of coonskin caps around here, as well as a couple of skunk skin caps! I loved Davy Crockett when I was a kid, and naturally bought two VHS tapes years ago of Davy Crockett. Having nearly worn them to a frazzle, I recently bought a two-DVD set at Costco, of Davy Crockett and the River Pirates and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier ($12.99 for the set 
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And last, but not least, yesterday at the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo, I met Rudy Robbins and was able to get him to autograph two photos of him and the Duke from The Alamo movie. I hope to scan them eventually and get them up so you can see them. I also bought a book he co-authored, How to Yodel "The Cowboy Way" with DVD instructions (you interested, Roland? I hear they do some fancy yodeling up in those Swiss Alps ). I'm thinking of becoming a singing cowboy myself 
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Seriously, he lives in Bandera, Texas, and seems to be enjoying life. I told him the story of our itdo (Roland) joining the message board, and how my wife and I thought were wondering if he was Rudy Robbins. He got a good laugh out of that.
Chester 
