[snopercod]

Thanks for updating this gripping story.

I, for one, will not be seeing the liberal revisionist version coming out soon.

Alamo movie filled with 'fairy tales'(Group says new film destroys memory of American heroes)

[SAMWolf]

Morning Snopercod. Welcome back.

Snippy and I went to see "The Alamo" yesterday. It's not as bad as I was expecting it to be. My biggest problem is that they went with the Davy Crockett survived the assault and was executed version. IMHO, there isn't enough proof of this. I also think they make Crockett look too much like a man who doubted himself. Nothing I read about him suggests that.

They throw in some "PC" comments and lines to bring out the point that Bowie was a slave holder, Travis abandoned his family, and that Houston and a lot of the men in Texas at that time where drunks, adventurers and opportunists. That part I don't really have a problem with, the men who settled the West and expanded the boundries where a rough lot, the citified dandies of back East where not the men who took the risks and pushed our Country West. They were the kind of men we needed, rough tough, adventurers and hard living, it in no way reduces the accomplishments of these men.

On the whole, I actually enjoyed most of the movie, the Battle scences are more historically accurate than the John Wayne version and I also went into the movie knowing that the men of the Alamo and Texas were not saints and had human faults.