[stevie_d_64]

Amazing that if you go back and look at the big picture, that if this battle had not occured, how potentially different our country would be today...

Not to mention how different the westward expansion of the North American continent would have been...

[sodpoodle]

Politically correct = ‘Forget the Alamo’.

[Bringbackthedraft]

The Alamo wasn’t exactly a Victory, its like celebrating Pearl Harbor. Why not celebrate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? What we are really celebrating is Manifest Destiny is it not? Texas was part of the USA because it broke away from Mexico and declared itself independent then it joined the US. Polk wanted to buy the area west of Texas from Mexico to CA but they weren’t interested in any deals. It was a war the US pushed to have, it wasn’t really about the Alamo. Even Lincoln and Grant felt it was a war that should not have occurred.

[Liberty Valance]

"Alamo marketing director Tony Caridi thought last year that he had corporate sponsors ready to put up $400,000 to stage a free, nationally televised concert for 60,000 people, but none of those backers have since made a firm commitment."

I worked with a guy like that once. We fired him. He loved to hear himself talk. Last i heard he went into radio sales.

[Disambiguator]

Alamo ready for big year, but big celebration on hold

Maybe they need to clean out the basement.