[Proud_texan]

"Everyone wants to remember the Alamo but I prefer to remember San Jacinto."

Not so long ago San Jacinto day was a big deal but no more and I also include Golaid and visit the small monument there any time I'm in the area.

But to me the story of the Alamo (and #$%^ the revisionist stories) where a group was greatly outnumbered, knew they were going to die, had a mission and didn't cut and run even though they had multiple opportunities to do so gets to me. I know that there are newly raised questions if Houston really ordered them to hold up Santa Ana but to the story it's moot, they didn't cut and run, knowing their fate.

I can't think of that without getting misty.

Perhaps it's because as a kid the Texas revolution was pounded into our heads starting in grade school. Too bad that's no longer the case.

And the Alamo remains a powerful symbol. Bless the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a volunteer group that has managed the Alamo since 1905. I "enjoy" watching kids trying to enter without removing their hats. Those ladies make sure they understand.

[mtbopfuyn]

Every year I try to sneak in a bit of the Battle of San Jacinto when I'm volunteering at school. Grandpa Sion Bostick was there and his first account story is most interesting. You'd be surprised (or not) how little the textbooks ignore or spin. My biggest soapbox on the textbooks is that William Goyens was a runaway slave and amazingly the Daughters of the Texas Revolution is still perpetuating that myth.

[Badray]

You got me all misty-eyed just reading your post.