Posted on 09/19/2002 8:22:53 AM PDT by Kevin Kelley
Of course he was. He was just back from Iwo Jima.
You sure will, right up there on the moment on the northwest corner of the Alamo site. You can see the entire list at the The Alamo site.
Juan Seguin is one of the more well known of the Tejano patriots, but he wasn't at the Alamo when it fell, having been ordered out by Col. Travis (he was a Captain in the Regular Texas Army at the time) to seek reinforcements. He later fought at San Jacinto and eventually became a Lt. Col. in the Army of Texas. His father was Alcalde (mayor) of San Antonio de Bexar at the time of the Texas Revolution.
And the contracters don't often speak highly of their customers either, when the customers are not around that is. I've been on both sides of that dance, and they are both right and both wrong. Some of the sterotypes of both sides are correct. But then again, I picked up some of the sterotypes held by the contracters when I was on the military side of things, both active and later reserve. I also observed some of the things the military and presumably NASA, complain about relative to the contracters. Now I work for a non-profit that is somewhere in the middle, although technically still a contracter, but much closer to the military than the Lockeeds, Boeings and Raytheons of the world.
For the most part they are. They consider him a "traitor" to Mexico. This based on events during and following the U.S/Mexican War, after Texas had become a state, and which resulted in the "sale" of, by Mexico to the United States, of all lands, other than Texas, that were once part of Mexico and are now part of the United States. (Claims of an independent California Republic not withstanding) We, the United States, reinstalled Santa Anna in Mexico, after the then existing government had exiled him. It worked just as we intended, with Generalisimo Antonio López de Santa Annabecoming once again a big fish in a somewhat smaller Mexican pond, although not before Santa Anna, as was his wont, double crossed the US and led the Mexican Army, or part of it, against US forces. See Santa Anna or better yet just search on Santa Anna
I think that's the scene people are refering to, but I also think they are overeacting. I never "read" it that way. Just a guy reacting with "I don't know if the damn thing will work under those conditions, since wasn't designed to do that", before realizing "there isn't any other choice, so we've got to make it work".
That said, I also saw that Grumman guy as more "bean counter" than engineer, even though he probably was an engineer by training, and perhaps, but only perhaps, by early carreer experience. There really are *some* people like that in industry, and I've know several of them in my 25 years on the industrial side of the MIC.
Be always sure you are right, and then go ahead.
Nothing PC about that...Davy believed in being right, not popular. After his last defeat at the polls, he announced to the voters, "As far as I'm concerned, you can all go to Hell. I am going to Texas."
A great man, we shall not look upon his like again...
One small point; while many of the defenders of the Alamo indeed were Americans, primarily they were Texicans.
What I would like to see is a epic movie telling the history of Texas Independence. From Austin's colony (take too long to go back too far) through the battle of San Jacinto. This incredible part of our history should be better known outside of Texas.
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