To: robowombat
A BIG Thank you bump.
2 posted on
08/30/2002 10:35:07 AM PDT by
CIBvet
To: robowombat
The Alamo story causes me to have a feeling that I cannot describe adequately. Pride, heartbreak, admiration, bewilderment all rolled into one feeling.
Whey
3 posted on
08/30/2002 10:39:47 AM PDT by
Whey
To: robowombat
A visit to the Alamo should be on the list of things to do for all Texans. Once you get past the commercialism surrounding it, it is truly a humbling experience to stand in that place.
4 posted on
08/30/2002 10:44:35 AM PDT by
ladtx
To: robowombat
Bump
To: robowombat
6 posted on
08/30/2002 10:49:44 AM PDT by
texson66
To: robowombat
When horror is intensified by mystery, the sure product is romance. dontcha just luv a well turned phrase...
To: humblegunner; HoustonCurmudgeon
*PING!*
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8 posted on
08/30/2002 10:55:42 AM PDT by
Flyer
To: robowombat
From the time I was little after I had seen the Fess Parker Buddy Epson version the Alamo story captured me..I was stationed at Ft Sam back in 68 and spent a lot of time there.. it is a moving place when thinking about America and freedom and the price paid for both...
To: robowombat
... not a single combatant of the last struggle from within the fort survived to tell the tale...I'm under the impression that a number of women and children survived.
11 posted on
08/30/2002 11:11:45 AM PDT by
js1138
To: robowombat
Doesn't Ron Howard have a plan to make a movie about the Alamo?
Is there any small chance he'll get it right? Or will it be revisionist story about how we "wronged" the native inhabitants, a peace-loving people who valued Mother Earth, and who always recycled?
18 posted on
08/30/2002 12:02:42 PM PDT by
Redbob
To: robowombat
Great article!!
To: robowombat
God bless Texas bump.
To: robowombat
Even with the touristy atmosphere around the Alamo, the feeling that you get when you go inside is indescribable.
To: robowombat
A TEXAN
A Texan went into the big city up North for the first time. After strolling around the downtown area for a while, he happened to look up and see a man at the top of a tall building.
The man looked like he was ready to jump off. Concerned about the man's fate, the Texan immediately started thinking of things he could tell the man so that he would want to live and would not jump.
"Remember your wife" yelled the Texan.
"She divorced me" said the man.
"Remember your children" yelled the Texan.
"They were adopted and won't have anything to do with me" said the man.
"Remember your parents," yelled the Texan.
"They're both dead," said the man.
"Remember the Alamo," yelled the Texan.
"What the hell is the Alamo?" inquired the man.
"JUMP, you yankee son of a b!tch!" replied the Texan.
To: robowombat
"Thermopyle had its messenger of defeat; the Alamo had none."
--Attributed to Sam Houston
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