Remember The Alamo

Originally posted by Wulebgr


BTW, the Alamo today sits astride the San Antonio River Walk, which is a very nice feature of a downtown business district that other cities could emulate.

Walked the River Walk last week. If you haven't been for a while there are whole new areas opened up going north and south from the dam. Wife and I walked for over an hour without seeing a single tourist. Up on street level stand with your back to the RW and directly across from the Alamo. Note the view...it is against the law for anyone to build a building behind the Alamo so that it could be seen from that viewpoint. 😉

Originally posted by Wulebgr
Originally posted by caissad4
[b]Let us not forget that those who surrendered to Santa Anna were murdered.

That's more or less true. Although I learned in grade school back in the 1960s that Jim Bowie, for example, took out some nine Mexicans from his death bed with a couple of single shot pistols and his famous knife. He, and many of the oth ...[text shortened]... mperialism. For patriotic Americans that profess justice, it is a dark moment in our history.[/b]

Yes, when I am playing chess and anyone mentions the Alamo, I, a patriotic American, begin softly to weep, and then I am thankful we have historians like woolybugger to keep us honest, as a nation.