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Every year, across the state of Texas and the nation at large, high school boys at the end of their junior year are chosen by their local American Legion (AL) Post to travel to Austin and participate in a week-long event focused on the practice of our democratic government. This event is known as Texas Boys State. Recently I, along with other Alpine High School students David Valenzuela, JP Valenzuela, and Zane Wash, were some of the roughly 1,000 boys chosen to attend Boys State and had the unique privilege of witnessing the future leaders of our state.