BIG SPRING, TX — During Monday’s meeting of the Howard County Commissioners Court, commissioners approved a donation from The Alamo Letter Society, an organization with a mission to educate current and future Texans about their forefathers’ armed struggle for Freedom and Liberty. They do this through the placement of a large bronze plaque containing Col. William Barrett Travis’s Alamo “Victory or Death” letter, in all 254 Texas Courthouses to honor the two leading Tejanos of the Texas Revolution, Jose Antonio Navarro and Juan Seguín.
The “Victory or Death” letter was written on Feb. 24, 1836, and heroically dispatched through the Mexican Army to General Sam Houston by Captain Albert Martin. Only 220 words long, many Texans and other Freedom-loving people around the world hold it in the same high esteem as the U.S. Constitution and the Magna Carta.
Each bronze plaque costs $4,500 to replicate. Howard County is one of 17 Texas counties that has had this cost covered by a donor identified as Marshall Brown Roberts. There is minimal costs for the county in regards to receiving the plaque. These costs include providing a display stand for the plaque and the cost of a dedication ceremony. County Judge Randy Johnson advised commissioners that he aims to work with schools in the area and the historical society to accomplish this.
The plaque is currently in production and can take approximately 2 months to complete. Other than that, there is no timeline yet on when the dedication ceremony will be scheduled.
(Photo: Alamo Letter Society, Facebook)
First time reading this letter. What a stirring and heroic document. Texans, and all Americans, should have a copy of this on a wall.
Reminds me of a section of our own Declaration of Arbroath 1320……
… for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.….
Im sure Texans and American citizens understand the sentiment. God Bless you all, and God Bless the great State of Texas.
Graham 🏴✊🇺🇸