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the film has Crockett captured, bound and executed on his knees after the battle was over, "even though the historical evidence shows that he was killed fighting, in the thick of combat, during the battle.

I have no idea what the "historical record" show vis-a-vis how crockett died...but it seems kind of childish to get worked up over the paritculars- were our POWs that were tortured and murdered in NVN wussies?

Seems to me an insistance that they all died "Nobely Resisting the Spanish Hordes" is kind of gay. They volunteered to fight, they didn't run away...they died.

Remember Corregidor? Do we denigrate the memory of those guys if we acknowledge they were captured?

I don't think so.

For that matter...the Passion, which most of us liked, showed Jesus asking God to lift his burden from him...does that make Him a coward?

It wouldn't be a problem, were it true - but unfortunately, the account of Crockett's surrender is blatantly false; the La Pena document, the only document that claims Crockett surrendered ,is a forgery. There are many reputable eyewitness accounts FROM THE SURVIVORS OF THE ALAMO that give credible, consistent testimony to the deaths of Crockett, Travis, and Bowie.

All historical and traditional accounts are well documented, and were not challenged until the so-called "La Pena" document surfaced. That document was widely hailed as truth, until it was revealed to be a forgery in the 1990's.

Sadly, the same publications and institutions that hailed the La Pena document as true didn't trumpet the discovery of it's falsehood; instead, they simply let the matter lie. The result is the birth of lies, marketed as truth, regarding the defenders of the Alamo.