Weep for me My Children Author:anita martin martinez The year is 1835. Miguel Fernandez and Jody Hamilton are 33 years old and life9long friends, who have always lived in the Mexican province of Tejas9Texas. Miguel's family has been in Texas for generations, while the Hamiltons arrived to homesgtead on a grant from the Mexican government shortly before Jody was born. Growing up together around S... more »an Antonio de Bexar, integrated into both cultures, they never dreamed that life as they knew it was over. One mild autumn day in October, the first shots were fired in a bid for independence by the disenchaned Texas colonist. Thurs began an extremely violent and bloddy confrontation known as the Texas Revolution, culminating in the legendary Siege of the Alamo, the surrender of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at San Jacinto when his once powerful Mexican army was decimated by avenging Texas forces, and the establishment of the Republic of Texas all within an amazing seven-monthperiod memorialized by the people of Texas to this day. The now familar story is here seen through the eyes of two young boys whose families are being relentlessly pushed in to the untenable position of choosing sides against people they love.« less