To: Sunshine Sister
On my visit to the Alamo many years ago I felt the same sense of reverence and overwhelming sadness. Stepping through the Chapel doors, I felt like I was going to an old friends funeral. It is a place that affects anyone who goes there. Upon leaving, I walked across the street to the Menger Hotel, went into the bar and had a couple of cold ones. Seemed like the appropriate thing to do.
22 posted on
08/30/2002 12:30:26 PM PDT by
MAWG
To: MAWG
I guess it's a fairly universal feeling we get when we go there. Each and every one of us understands sacrifice. I found it disconcerting that there was no final resting place of the heros. I know the statuary was supposed to symbolize a monument but it was wierd.........
To: MAWG
I walked across the street to the Menger Hotel, went into the bar and had a couple of cold ones.Perhaps you felt the presence of a few ghosts there as well for it was in that very place that Theodore Roosevelt recruited a large number of his "Ruff Riders"!
38 posted on
08/30/2002 5:33:54 PM PDT by
Bigun
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