[MAWG]

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.

[Sunshine Sister]

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.........

[Bigun]

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"!