william barrett travels was a lawyer, that's one reason i like him, aisle a lawyer. but he was a 27-year-old individual, born in south carolina, raised in alabama, found his way to texas and he was a revolutionary. he wanted independence for the state of texas, or the republic of texas. and he took command of the alamo and he sent out scouts, would be the term, asking that people who lived in the area come to the alamo and help defend the alamo, fight against this imperialistic dictator, and get texas independence. he sent his best friend, who also came from south carolina, jim bonham, out as a scout along with others, juan seguin was one. trying to get folks to come to help out at the alamo. unfortunately, only one small town responded in the affirmative, and that was gonzalez, texas, where it all began. 32 volunteers from gonzalez, all men, young men, primarily the entire population of gonzalez texas, marched from gonzalez to the alamo. they were the only reinforcements that went. now, if you would, mr. speaker, think about frontier life, the rsh frontier, where th

barrett. >> it was a saturday, and i was eight years old. and my father took my younger sister and i, and we drove out to lake geneva to visit with this priest, william effinger. at one point in the day, father effinger said he needed help in the church with candles. and my father said, "go help him." and we went into the church, where he assaulted me for a period of time, and ultimately ended up raping me. while he was raping me, i didn't understand what was happening. i just knew there was this incredible pain and i could hardly breathe, and i kept praying that god would just let me die. and when he finished, he stood up and he looked at me and he said, "if you tell anybody what you did, they won't believe you. and if you tell anybody, your parents will burn in hell." and then he gave me penance to do, and he turned and looked at me, and he smoothed his hair back with both of his hands and he walked down the aisle of the church, and i remember hearing the door close. and i just sat there because i didn't know what i should do, and eventually i realized that there was blood on my legs and there was blood on the new purple shorts that my grandma had