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Feb 2, 2012, 8:41:02 PM2/2/12
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POD Rick Perry, President of the Republic of Texas
4th March, 1950
On this day James Richard ("Rick") Perry was born to ranchers Joseph
Ray Perry and the former Amelia June Holt in the unincorporated
community of Paint Creek in north central Texas.
By 1973 his political connections and leadership abilities landed him
with a place on "future leaders of America". This elite development
programme was conceived by Five-star Confederate General Dwight David
Eisenhower in order to correct the dreadful shortcomings of the un-
coordinated American commands that he had suffered from during World
War Two. Assigned to the US Air Force, Perry served with distinction,
rising to the acting rank of Captain in the Tactical Airlift Squadron.
Conceivably, these acts of continental patriotism might even have led
to the awakening sense of transnational identify that was the unstated
goal of FLoA. Possibly he could have returned to Texas as an
evangelist for a compelling vision of America's manifest destiny. But
then fate intervened when he was selected as an observer on Operation
Eagle Talon. His outlook was transformed by the tangled mass of
helicopters that he witnessed in the Iranian desert...
Full article continues on the Today in Alternate History Web Site at
http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?story=39511-V
4th March, 1950
On this day James Richard ("Rick") Perry was born to ranchers Joseph
Ray Perry and the former Amelia June Holt in the unincorporated
community of Paint Creek in north central Texas.
By 1973 his political connections and leadership abilities landed him
with a place on "future leaders of America". This elite development
programme was conceived by Five-star Confederate General Dwight David
Eisenhower in order to correct the dreadful shortcomings of the un-
coordinated American commands that he had suffered from during World
War Two. Assigned to the US Air Force, Perry served with distinction,
rising to the acting rank of Captain in the Tactical Airlift Squadron.
Conceivably, these acts of continental patriotism might even have led
to the awakening sense of transnational identify that was the unstated
goal of FLoA. Possibly he could have returned to Texas as an
evangelist for a compelling vision of America's manifest destiny. But
then fate intervened when he was selected as an observer on Operation
Eagle Talon. His outlook was transformed by the tangled mass of
helicopters that he witnessed in the Iranian desert...
Full article continues on the Today in Alternate History Web Site at
http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?story=39511-V
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