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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston
I moved to Texas from Michigan in 1979 (along with about a quarter of the state) and never looked back. (I even wrote about the move on Ricochet, but cannot find the piece.) Texas has been home ever since.
Shara Fryer, a long-time fixture in Houston's local news scene has an occasional podcast, My Heart of Texas, about "being Texan." Last week, for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings she wanted to feature the role of the battleship Texas at D-Day. Discovering I had written a book about the battleship and was local, she asked me to appear on the show, which went live on Thursday. On it we talked about USS Texas and D-Day, the role the sea has played in Texas history and continues to play today, and . . . well . . . my career as an author and rocket scientist.
You can listen to the podcast at the link below.
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*Rocket Engineer,
you are more useful than a scientist.
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“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” ― Davy Crockett
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True, that.
When I graduated from college I had an engineering degree. A friend hired at the same time had a physics degree - a true science degree. I got paid 15% more right out the gate because I had an engineering degree and he had a science degree. You know what they say about market pricing.
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Scientists tell engineers what can't be done. Engineers do it.
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