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Damn Right.

Being a fifth generation Texican myself, I'll just believe this information below instead of the Disney/Eisner bullsh*t version.

Mrs. Susana Dickinson, the wife of Capt. Almeran Dickinson, and her 18-month-old daughter were the only Anglo survivors at the Alamo. She is reported as having said, "I recognized Col. Crockett lying dead and mutilated between the church and the two-story barrack building and even remember seeing his peculiar cap, lying by his side."

Joe, a slave owned by William Travis, and Enrique Esparza, the eight-year-old son of Gregorio Esparza, who was in Capt. Seguin's company, gave very similar accounts of Crockett's death, that he was killed fighting to the end.

Mexican Sergeant Felix Nunez reported in his diary that "this tall American with a long buckskin coat had a charmed life." Of the many soldiers who took deliberate aim at him and fired, not one ever hit him." But Crockett, on the other hand, "never missed a shot. He killed at least eight of our men, besides wounding several others. My lieutenant sprang at him and dealt him a deadly blow with his sword, just above the right eye, which felled him to the ground. In an instant, he was pierced by no less than 20 bayonets."

Amen! Ms. Dickinson said she saw Crockett lying near the picket fence that Travis has alluded to in one of his dispatches. This was the area Travis had given him and his men to defend.

My wife is a descendent of Crockett. We were in middle Tennessee this past weekend visiting the graves of her ancestors. She has said since day one, "If they show that Crockett surrendered, I will not go see it." We will not go see it.

Sam Houston was a drunk while living with the Indians in Arkansas. But history shows all were in awe of him when he rode into Washington on the Brazos. But what really upsets me is that Quaid would agree to do this movie. He's a Texan, for God's sake! And John Lee Hancock is a Texan! Shame of them both for selling out! Gentlemen, your Lonestar passes have been revoked!