When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched a gazillion episodes of Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. Ah, who remembers the words to The Ballad of Davy Crockett? “…He killed him a b’ar when he was only three…” Coleman was always pretty good at picking his heroes. When he was nine, he wore a Cal Ripken #8 T-shirt every day for a couple of years.
Not only was Davy the King of the Wild Frontier, but he was also a Congressman from Tennessee — an astute political figure and polemicist. His most prescient moment came during the "Not Yours to Give" debate. Congress wanted to pass a bill to give financial aid to the widow of a naval officer. While sympathizing with the widow, Crockett said this:
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