Gary Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located in San Marcos, Texas. After it was closed, it was redeveloped into San Marcos Municipal Airport.
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“It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
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Tugging at banks, until they seemed
Bland belly-sounds in somnolent troughs,
That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine,
The breath of turgid summer, and
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—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
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