01/18/2026
Day 4/3: Found him! Finally found my son Rex (aka Magnum P.I. 🥰😆) long enough to get a pic with him. Here we are at the luau 🌺🌼 and a brief moment with mom!!
🎵 Also, a few songs from his concert a few days ago about the USS Memorial. Rex plays the tuba and it was so touching for his band to get to do this. I 🥲 the whole time!
🎼Star Spangled Banner ~ 🇺🇸
The US National Anthem by Francis Scott Key (1814)
🎵 America The Beautiful ~ 🏔️
Author: Katharine Lee Bates, English professor and poet. Written as a poem in 1893, first published on July 4, 1895, in The Congregationalist.
Music: Paired with Samuel A. Ward’s hymn “Materna,” composed in 1882.
🎸 Texas Medley ~ 🇨🇱
The famous line “The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas” comes from the song “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” originally performed by several artists in 1942, with popular versions by Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, and Alvino Rey.
Miles and Miles of Texas - first recorded by Jim McGraw And The Western Sundowners in 1961, made famous to later generations like my own at the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas by Asleep at the Wheel 🛞
🎺 The Westlake High School Fight Song ~ 📣
Eanes ISD
Austin, Texas