Mission San Antonio de Valero in San Antonio de Béxar, Texas
Posted on 03/06/2009 7:13:28 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Teachers & Administrators,
On Saturday, March 7th and Sunday, March 8th 2009 students from The Heritage Society of Somerset High School, as well as other local high schools and middle schools, will join with the San Antonio Living History Association in reenacting the 1836 Battle of the Alamo.
The event will take place in Alamo Plaza, directly in front of the Alamo, in downtown San Antonio.
This year's battle reenactments will take place at 11:00AM and again at 3:30PM on Saturday, and 3:45PM on Sunday.
Living history drills and demonstrations will also take place all day between the battle reenactments. The historical encampment will be open all day from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. Admission is free and open to the public.
Teachers offering extra credit for attending the event should tell their students to ask for “Sargento Torres” or “Coronel Duque” in order to get their event program stamped.
What: 1836 Alamo Battle Reenactment
Where: Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX
Who: Free & Open to the Public
When: Saturday, March 7th and Sunday, March 8th
The Heritage Society of Somerset High School is a student-led campus organization that works to share the history of Texas, and especially San Antonio, with the community. The group is involved in living history reenactments of many different eras, such as American Revolution and Civil War – but is especially focused on the Texas War for Independence. Students or teachers who are interested in becoming a living history reenactor may get plenty of information at this event.
There are upcoming opportunities to participate in living history programs in a number of historical eras. Including; Roman Legion, American Revolution, Texas Revolution, Civil War, WWII, and Vietnam.
For more information, Contact:
Damaso Torres, Social Studies & P.E. Depts., Somerset High School, damaso.torres@sisdk12.net
Maybe there is hope after all.
Bet this will raise a few hackles with the PC liberal elements around town.
Hoot
The Alamo does not have a basement
Back in 1836, Houston said to Travis:
“Get some volunteers and go fortify the Alamo.”
Well, the men came from Texas and from old Tennessee,
And they joined up with Travis just to fight for the right to be free.
Indian scouts with squirrel guns, men with muzzle loaders,
Stood together heel and toe to defend the Alamo.
“You may never see your loved ones,” Travis told them that day.
“Those that want to can leave now, those who'll fight to the death, let ‘em stay.”
In the sand he drew a line with his army sabre,
Out of a hundred eighty five, not a soldier crossed the line.
With his banners a-dancin’ in the dawn's golden light,
Santa Anna came prancin’ on a horse that was black as the night.
He sent an officer to tell Travis to surrender.
Travis answered with a shell and a rousin’ rebel yell.
Santa Anna turned scarlet: “Play Degüello,” he roared.
“I will show them no quarter, everyone will be put to the sword.”
One hundred and eighty five holdin’ back five thousand.
Five days, six days, eight days, ten; Travis held and held again.
Then he sent for replacements for his wounded and lame,
But the troops that were comin’ never came, never came, never came.
Twice he charged, then blew recall. On the fatal third time,
Santa Anna breached the wall and he killed them one and all.
Now the bugles are silent and there's rust on each sword,
And the small band of soldiers lie asleep in the arms of The Lord.
In the southern part of Texas, near the town of San Antone,
Like a statue on his Pinto rides a cowboy all alone.
And he sees the cattle grazin’ where a century before,
Santa Anna's guns were blazin’ and the cannons used to roar.
And his eyes turn sort of misty, and his heart begins to glow,
And he takes his hat off slowly to the men of Alamo.
To the thirteen days of glory at the seige of Alamo.
This always bring pride to my heart and a tear to my eye--
bttt
Visited the Alamo many moons ago when I was stationed up hill at Ft. Sill, OK. It was an interesting look at a significant historical event that those of us faced with losing freedom and liberty today should be inspired by.
Searched story and do not... 
find 'basement' mentioned.
So your point... 
is?
We are celebrating the trigger event, like the shot heard around the world.
We must always remember the deliverance event called:
San Jacinto
That is the one that we should focus on reenacting.
Thanks - I needed a new wallpaper for this computer.
From Pee Wee’s big adventure
That’s next month at the battleground.
The Alamo is one of the few places on this earth where when I visit, I find myself speechless and reverent.
As a 2nd grader in the early 1950s I lived in San Antonio while my old Pappy built huge hangers for B-36s and such. When we went there for the first time, both my Father and Mother were both greatly surprised that their son who never stopped talking did!
Donovan singing “The Alamo”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-jB0VvhjFg
A 180 were challenged by Travis to die
By a line that he drew with his sword as the battle drew nigh
A man that crossed over the line was for glory
And he that was left better fly
And over the line crossed 179
Hey Up Santa Anna, they’re killing your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will know
And remember the Alamo
Jim Bowie lay dying, the blood and the sweat in his eyes
But his knife at the ready to take him a few in reply
Young Davy Crocket lay laughing and dying
The blood and the sweat in his eyes
For Texas and freedom a man was more willing to die
Hey Up Santa Anna, they’re killing your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will know
And remember the Alamo
A courier came to a battle once bloody and loud
And found only skin and bones where he once left a crowd
Fear not little darling of dying
If this world be sovereign and free
For we’ll fight to the last for as long as liberty be
Hey Up Santa Anna, they’re killing your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will know
And remember the Alamo
Gadzooks! Knew Travis, Bowie and Crockett were there... 
but did not every hear of Pee Wee Herman being there.
Then again, the liberal PCing of history... 
never stops, eh?
God Bless Texas and true American heroes. Men of honor and courage.
Also don’t forget:
GOLIAD MASSACRE. The Goliad Massacre, the tragic termination of the Goliad Campaign of 1836, is of all the episodes of the Texas Revolution the most infamous. Though not as salient as the battle of the Alamo, the massacre immeasurably garnered support for the cause against Mexico both within Texas and in the United States, thus contributing greatly to the Texan victory at the battle of San Jacinto and sustaining the independence of the Republic of Texas. The execution of James W. Fannin, Jr.’s, command in the Goliad Massacre was not without precedent, however, and Mexican president and general Antonio López de Santa Anna,qv who ultimately ordered the exterminations, was operating within Mexican law. Therefore, the massacre cannot be considered isolated from the events and legislation preceding it.
As he prepared to subdue the Texas colonists Santa Anna was chiefly concerned with the help they expected from the United States. His solution was tested after November 15, 1835, when Gen. José Antonio Mexía attacked Tampico with three companies enlisted at New Orleans. One company, badly led, broke ranks at the beginning of Mexía’s action, and half its number, together with wounded men from other companies, were captured by Santa Anna’s forces the next day. Twenty-eight of them were tried as pirates, convicted, and, on December 14, 1835, shot (see TAMPICO EXPEDITION). Four weeks elapsed between their capture and their execution, enabling Santa Anna to gauge in advance the reaction of New Orleans to their fate. It was, on the whole, that in shooting these prisoners, Mexico was acting within its rights. Believing that he had found an effective deterrent to expected American help for Texas, Santa Anna sought and obtained from the Mexican Congress the decree of December 30, 1835, which directed that all foreigners taken in arms against the government should be treated as pirates and shot.
More here:
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/qeg2.html
Here is some more... 
for your laptop:
Remember ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
and his “Big Iron” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqWgTi2bIOc is still the best Western song ever written.
I tried for too many years to make a film based on it. My head is still blooded... 
but not bowed.
Maybe some day someone other than me will do the trick!
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