Howdy and welcome to another episode of Wise about Texas, the Texas History Podcast.

I'm your host Ken Wise, and thank you very much

for tuning in today for Little Texas History.

We've had a very eventful early winter here in Texas. We've had some things that have messed

with the Wies about Texas production schedule and continue to mess with it. We've

had it was a general election we've that the court very busy. We've had Thanksgiving in the middle of the

World War I episodes and then unfortunately we lost our 41st president George Herbert Walker Bush a couple of weeks ago and I released a tribute episode to him last week and just thought it would be appropriate to let that sit out there for a week.

I hope you had a chance to listen to it.

President Bush was a great Houstonian and a great Texan,

and that's what I talk about in that episode, even though he wasn't born here.

But now we're back on track and I've got some good ideas for the next few episodes.

I'm going to release one quickly next week before Christmas

and related to Christmas and that's all I'll say about it.

But today we're going to continue with our look at Texas in the Great War and this started back

near armistice day in November.

And that was part one and we talked about the border troubles in Texas and how that tied the United States into entering World War I.

Well part two, we're going to talk about another role that Texas played in

World War one, and that is the training of the troops. So let's go back to the early 20th century

in San Antonio and get wise about Texas.

Johnny, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, take it on the run, on the run. We've discussed in prior episodes the importance of San Antonio as a military

installation. You'll recall from earlier episodes how we've talked about the

Spanish attempts to colonize Texas

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