[Proud_texan]

Yep, bloodthirsty is probably being kind.

I've tried to read a lot of different takes on The Alamo and there's any kind of spin out there you want. I prefer to believe the account I grew up with as a kid, which is probably fictionalized but since there's no definitive account...

But there are some known facts. Santa Ana had taken over Mexico and was rescinding the Texas land grants.

But it's always seemed to me that the powerful message in any account is that the defenders of the Alamo had multiple opportunities to bug out, even after deguello was played...and they didn't.

No one will ever know for sure what went on during those days, if they were human they were probably afraid, I would have been, but they didn't run, even when they had their chance.

That fact moves me.

[Agnes Heep]

No one will ever know for sure what went on during those days, if they were human they were probably afraid, I would have been, but they didn't run, even when they had their chance.

It's difficult for modern sensibilities to comprehend, but I think honor had a lot to do with it. As Travis put it, "... I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country ....

Something to which we should all aspire!