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By falling in battle, they were raised to the summit of Texas history...:texas:...Ben
One of my great, great, great grandfathers* snuck up on the bastards at San Jacinto and got a measure of retribution.:texas: Thumbup
His father was one of The Original Three Hundred, I learned last year.
*I think I got the number of “greats” correct there
I think my grandfather's great-grandfather came to Texas about the time of Austin's colony. My grandfather was born in 1896 on a farm between Elgin and Giddings. He told me his great-grandfather had been in Texas on that farm all his life. He was a truck driver and owned a trucking company and had settled down in Hamilton where my mom was born and grew up.
My Dad's side of the family were latecomers and came to Jacksboro sometime in the 1890s and ended up in Baird where my dad grew up.
I don't know of any of my ancestors that fought in the Alamo, all were simple farmers.
Remember the Alamo!!
Back on Track. Santa Ana was headed to Anahuac to deal with rebellious Texicans when he was caught with his pants down at San Jancinto. Fort Anahuac Park has numerious historical markers.
Been to the Alamo many times and grew up in Del Rio and went to Alamo village outside of Bracketville many more times. Was out there when they filmed Bandelero with Dean Martin and Raquel Welch. Shame they closed it down. I need to find the movie "The Alamo" that I watched as a kid, they are real proud of them on Amazon.
I now live next to Baird. Yes there are still some crazies there. I think that is why there is an old nuke silo right down the road from me, if that bunch got out of hand they could blast em pretty quick. :rofl:
I never understood why cameras were not allowed inside the Alamo, what was the purpose of that?
Dork has found out he's got a relative who was in the revolutionary war & burred in PA, going to visit his grave hopefully this summer when we are in PA and try to find out more.....
But don't know anybody in the Fam who saved Texas so they could be the biggest blowhards in all of the country....:omfg::omfg::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
http://www.thealamo.org/visit/grounds/rules/index.htmlQuote:
The Alamo, like many other museums, asks patrons to not photograph exhibits for several reasons. Repeated exposures to camera flashes fade certain types of artifacts. Additionally, the Alamo church has been designated a shrine by the State of Texas and as such is a place of reverence and reflection.
I understand now.
The first time I went there I was so surprised at how small it was and how it was crammed right in the middle of a metropolis.
I think you covered that for them. https://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/st...ilies/puff.gif
The Alamo is in the middle of a tourist nightmare presently, but there are big plans in progress to clear much of that out and restore the area to a more original configuration. Much controversy has ensued.
I've not been to San Antonio since leaving March of 83 & that winter it snowed and was cold as crap.......course I got married on Lackland in Dec....
Anywhoo, for us non locals, I take it lots of growing pains and tons of tourists have really made a mess of things???
The Alamo was a crumbling, derelict structure where drunks slept and prostitutes practiced their trade. It was a lot like a modern-day crack house in the early 1900s when local real estate developers were trying to destroy it to make room for development.
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas recognized the historical significance of the site and structure and raised the funds to purchase it in order to preserve and protect it as a shrine to those brave souls that gave their lives for the independence of Texas from Mexico.
That volunteer organization owned and administered the site from 1905 until Governor Rick Perry seized control from them and gave it to the General Land Office now headed by GLO commissioner George Prescott Bush.
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas was very adamant that the Alamo be kept as a shrine and had serious rules to protect it and they did for over 100 years.
Now its fate is threatened by being owned by political entities that could very well decide that maybe there are resources under the structure and oil companies should be allowed to drill there or that it may be a profitable place to allow retail shopping or real estate development. Even if the structure is razed to build luxury condos, the declaration of "Remember the Alamo" does not simply remember the structure but for Texans, it is remember the battle and those who died for independence.
Fortunately, the DRT did recently win a lawsuit over the ownership of the 38,000 books, maps, and flags, artwork, and manuscripts collected by them over the years and they will display those artifacts in a special museum. The GLO had proposed selling all those items to enrich the state treasury.
Sorry, Don, but the Alamo was purchased by the State of Texas in 1905 and the legislature named the DRT as custodians. Land Commissioner George P. Bush (Yup! Yet another Bush!) removed the DRT as custodians in 2015.
You are correct of course, it was only the volunteer donations collected by the DRT that provided for the restoration and administration of the site for 100 years. The state did own the structure and property.
I suppose it would make a great Taco Bell now that Mr Bush controls and manages it.
Where does that type of thinking come from? I am speechless......
Don speculates in fear as an ex-Texan who left the state of his birth in his wake because it might tax his camper — “Now its fate is threatened by being owned by political entities that could very well decide that maybe there are resources under the structure and oil companies should be allowed to drill there or that it may be a profitable place to allow retail shopping or real estate development.“
Don, that’s why Texan George Mitchell invented slant-hole drilling, and I’m sorry to inform you, but Alamo Plaza has long been the scene of shoddy sales men & women. In fact, it was there that the gods saw fit to introduce us, by way of the Chili Queens selling their creations — Earth’s sweetest nectar, Chili con Carne. Today, the plaza is one step up from a carnival and no chili other than out of a commissary can. Long overdo for a redo, which the good sisters of the DRT could never even sniff.
You are mostly correct and do have a good memory Wacojoe. One of the main reasons I left Texas was G W Bush deciding my 5th wheel must be taxed by the school districts while exempting motor homes. Being tired of the same ol same ol and wanting different vistas was part of the decision as well.
Tell me why should one be taxed and not the other:
https://magazine.geniuscamping.com/w...er-storico.jpg
Because it was the law? If that was all it took to get rid of you, I applaud the man.
Surely you're not suggesting that Don is a scofflaw, or worse a fugitive who was exonerated by President Trump and exempted from the NICS database, are you James?...If so, that could be construed as to mean he is no better, perhaps even worse than those killers of innocent children whom he refers to as responsible, law-abiding citizens...
Say it ain't so...:doh:...Ben
I would never do that....
Because this is the State of Taxes. No State income tax so they tax everything else. No biggie. Six of one and a half dozen of the other. Smart people are moving here in droves. Unfortunately they are coming from Cali. and up Nawth.
:rofl: I took it as the joke it was meant to be Ben.
It is our way of keeping the riff raff on the other side of our borders.