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CTyankee

(65,362 posts) Sun Nov 10, 2024, 08:58 AM Nov 10

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The Alamo. Cross posting here for greater claification of this newly political issue. [View all]

I have an upcoming meeting with my book producer who has just returned from a conference in San Antonio and had visited the Alamo. He is a republican and I anticipate a discussion about the Alamo.

Let me interject here that I am a 3rd generation Texan who was pretty much instructed to believe that the Alamo was about Texas's freedom from oppression by the Mexican government at the time in history. Since then I have never given it much thought and I now live in blue CT.

I need some help from folks who have a better understanding of this historical battle (and the movie about that battle) and the truth, not the fiction, about it.

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The Alamo. Cross posting here for greater claification of this newly political issue. [View all] CTyankee Nov 10 OP

Simple. Most of the men who fought at the Alamo were Aristus Nov 10 #1

As I recall, westward expansion included having Americans settling in Texas. 3Hotdogs Nov 10 #2

With the addition of Phil Collins' huge collection, the museum wants to tell a more complete story. TwilightZone Nov 10 #3

It's lovely to believe that the men in the Alamo were Vogon_Glory Nov 10 #4

Thanks! I wish I had a copy of my textbook from the public school I was attending where I was taught this. It was CTyankee Nov 10 #5

It might not have done you that much good Vogon_Glory Nov 10 #6

In Dallas in the 50s I was in a white bubble, not rich but privileged (largely at the expense of Mexicans and African CTyankee Nov 10 #7

An overwhelming number of people in San Antonio came during the MX Revolution LeftInTX Nov 10 #9

Find and read "Lone Star" by joshdawg Nov 10 #8

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