[oh8eleven]

The Alamo is one of the few places on this earth where when I visit, I find myself speechless and reverent.
I visited the Alamo for the first time last year and my reaction was just the opposite. I was "underwhelmed."
And nothing personal, but if this place is one of the few that leave you "speechless and reverent", you must not travel very much.

[Bender2]

Re: I visited the Alamo for the first time last year and my reaction was just the opposite. I was "underwhelmed." And nothing personal, but if this place is one of the few that leave you "speechless and reverent", you must not travel very much.

Find it hard to believe you have a Globe & Anchor on your FR homepage for evidently, courage and dying for your beliefs means nothing to you, so I'll take my 'limited' travel history over anything your pudknocker comment above carries.

And when you slam the Alamo... it is damn personal!

BTW don't go peeing on the Vietnam Wall in DC, someone may take that personal.

Then again, with Øbama now at the helm... that may be in fashion for your ilk.

[Texas Fossil]

It is not the building but significance of the event that chokes Texans up.

Tourists cannot understand it’s significance.

It was a unifying experience.

“Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad!”

And “Remember San Jacinto”

[Allegra]

And nothing personal, but if this place is one of the few that leave you "speechless and reverent", you must not travel very much.

Really? I am also rendered reverent by the Alamo and very impressed by all that it represents.

*Sigh* I guess I'm one of those people who just hasn't traveled much past my backyard.