Jack Hays first job, before he became the most famous Texas Ranger, was reburying the bodies of the soldiers who fell at San Jacinto, the Alamo - or were executed after surrendering at Goliad.

The Mexican Army of the time was composed of conscripts and criminals, treated as slaves by their officers, their bodies were left were they fell on battlefields - they were no more worth buring than a mule and often considered less valuable.

When Hays and the men of Texas gathered and reburied those men; Mexican and American, they marked for future generations, that the men who fought and died fighting for what they believed in should be and would be both honored and commorated by the greater community that exist as much by the value of these actions - by what they held sacred as by the slaughters done in any battle.

Reburying those bodies set a brand in history for every Texan of any heritage to live up to. A constant and painful reminder when we fail to do the same.

The Spanish settlers in Texas, with significant exceptions like Juan Seguin, did not wholeheartedly support the new republic, until after they saw for themselves that fine words were supported by the public acknowledgment : every man, be he convict, criminal or enemy is worth burying, despite the fact that our first and final formula is dust.

Hays acted on Sam Huston's orders in reburying those stinking mouldering corpse rotten weeks or months in the Texas sun. Houston, the first president of Texas, saw the civil war coming, knew Texas would survive, even if the republic should fail, if it honored the values of the men who died and the men who buried then and erected monuments in their memory.

Less than a 100 years after Hays death children around the world played a game based on his exploits, cowboys and indians. There are people who will tell you Samuel Colt's repeating revolver beat the comanche - the finest light cavalry in the world. It wasn't. It was the determination of Hays and a tiny handful of others.

Hays finished his 'law enforcement' career as the sheriff of San Francisco, and the crooked pedovores running California today were already running it then. Hays, who fought the comanche, couldn't fight pedo secret societies, he bought a house on the hill across the bay and faded from history, leaving us the monuments to remind us we had seen better days and might again if we choose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coffee_Hays