[GOP Poet]

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[B-Chan]

This is what happens when there’s no men around.

[IbJensen]

Intramural spat.

[oh8eleven]

While I can appreciate what happened at the Alamo historically, I was less than impressed on my visit there last year.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[a fool in paradise]

For more than a century, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas -- nearly 7,000 women who trace their pedigrees back to the origins of the Texas Republic -- have had total control of the Alamo, the state's most revered historic site. They maintain what's left of the old mission, manage its historic exhibits and run the gift shop. They don't charge admission, and the site doesn't cost the state government a penny. Now a small group of renegade Daughters has broken away, saying the Daughters' outmoded traditions and iron grip on the "Shrine of Texas Liberty" are holding back progress and preventing much-needed preservation work from moving ahead. They liken their declaration of independence to Texas's own split from Mexico in 1836.

They should settle this with a roller derby match.

[bgill]

Ha, that’s one reason why I haven’t submitted my membership application. A few years ago, they had an essay contest for kids. They felt the need to bring in race so went out to find a famous Texas black slave who made good. Sad thing is, the guy they decided on swore he wasn’t a slave and wasn’t black.

[GeronL]

Bringing in better fundraising methods should be a good thing. But she loses me when she wants to bring in the THC. No way should government be involved.

[Rightly Biased]

I got P*oed at the DRT a few years back when they let a lady set up a Henna Tattoo Kiosk in the back of the Alamo Compound.

None of the tats said “Remember the Alamo” either!

[tx_eggman]

T.... director David Stewart, who resigned in May after seven years on the job. "It's a real trip to work for 6,700 women," Mr. Stewart said.

Ya think?? I'd have gone out in the parking lot and opened a vein.

[bert]

I wonder which group Abuela Castillo belongs to?

The old timers I’ll bet

[texmexis best]

The DRT is doing a fine job. Bowman is off the reservation and should be launched out of the organization.

The Alamo is not physically impressive as it was a small fortified church out in the middle of nowhere, but the story is compelling and is truly memorable. Texans, especially men, talk in hushed tones when going through the ruins and it is rare to see one with the their cowboy hat on their head.

When the SHTF, the Alamo is, for Texans, “The Gathering Place” and will always remain so.

Remember the Alamo.

[MeekOneGOP]

** Remember the Alamo!! **

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To my Texas list:

Ping! Ping! Ping!

[MinorityRepublican]

The title fooled me. I thought the article suggested that Texas was actually going to secede in the near future.

[Charlespg]

http://thealamovillage.homestead.com/AlamoVillage.html

[Magnatron]

While I’ve never been to the Alamo, I wonder if this spat is the result of a certain faction trying to make the exhibits more “politically correct.” You know, things like making the entire experience about the genocide of the Indians and the “theft” of land from a peaceable Mexican peoples. In other words, an apologetic memorial rather than a triumphant one.

[Peanut Gallery]

I thought about joining Daughters of the Republic of Texas. My Texas heritage is important to me, but I realized it was more like a sorority and that I would be one of the youngest members (and I am really a GDI at heart anyway).

My family was not here for the Texas Revolution, but they did settle in Nacogdoches in 1840.

[Still Thinking]

The battle cry, "Remember the Alamo!" helped inspire Texans to defeat the Mexican army a month later, securing Texas's independence

I thought it was "The lawn guys are here! Oh, wait..."