Remember the Alamo! February 23 – March 6, 1836

The Alamo ^ | February 23 1836 | The Alamo

[GregoTX]

On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texians and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army. William B. Travis, the commander of the Alamo sent forth couriers carrying pleas for help to communities in Texas. On the eighth day of the siege, a band of 32 volunteers from Gonzales arrived, bringing the number of defenders to nearly two hundred. Legend holds that with the possibility of additional help fading, Colonel Travis drew a line on the ground and asked any man willing to stay and fight to step over — all except one did. As the defenders saw it, the Alamo was the key to the defense of Texas, and they were ready to give their lives rather than surrender their position to General Santa Anna. Among the Alamo's garrison were Jim Bowie, renowned knife fighter, and David Crockett, famed frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee.

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[Ditter]

I wish I was going to the Alamo instead of Oklahoma this next week.

[basil]

Oklahoma is OK!

Well, to hear the Okie I married tell it—LOL!

[Ditter]

Oklahoma is definitely OK, I love Oklahoma and if I didn't live in Texas I am sure I would live in Oklahoma but I really LOVE the Alamo and all the other missions. I am a mission freak!

[prisoner6]

Wanted to post this earlier but I had to get ready for work.

From The Alamo...John Wayne.

Republic.

I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.

Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man.

Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm.

Republic is one of those words.

[GregoTX]

Alamo Day

MARCH 6th 1836