The Dreadful Song From The Alamo

Been to the Alamo twice. Most folks inside the actual chapel area were quiet and respective. The adjacent museum shop was a madhouse. In the shop is a diorama of the battle. It is very impressive.
 
fanocool said:
Very interesting.......I never knew about this. The song is hauntingly beautiful but with such a dreadful meaning. The Alamo defenders were a ballsy group to say the very least.
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It was also predominently featured in: Rio Bravo--which is kind where John Wayne got his interest about going forward with making The Alamo. I love that movies theme song which is: The Green Leaves of Summer.
 
I have been to the Alamo twice and looked at the paintings of defenders. I spent some time there, and all the while I had this feeling, a sacred respect.
I felt the same at Civil War battlefield sites. I can't imagine how I would handle a visit to the Arizona or the WWII and Vietnam memorials.
Heck, I have some sand from the beach at Normandy that I can feel the blood and sacrifice it represents.
History, and a sense of history is not taught and is soon to be lost along with the pride and loyalty it teaches.
 
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Try this link to the authentic version. Posted tonight, 1 Jan., 2017.


And this is the first time I wrote the digits for the new year!


Just typing El Deguello in the Search blank got many listings for both this and the John Wayne version.
 
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Here's, The Green Leaves of Summer, from the movie, The Alamo, 1960.


Nothing to do with El Deguello, but a fine piece of music, nonetheless.


(A commercial may intrude at the first.)
 
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The Green Leaves of Summer IS the finest piece of music ive ever heard. Its one that can get one to thinking and leave the eyes teary wet.
 
Double-O-Dave said:
What surprises a lot of our out-of-state friends and family that we take to visit the Alamo is when they learn that the Mexican army of 1836 was considered the 4th largest army in the world. Sure, they had conscripted peasants as cannon fodder, but they also had professionally trained and equipped officers and troops as well.

Regards,

Dave
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What surprised me was that it was right across the street from a Burger King. I was stationed at Ft. Sam for a while and whenever I didn't have anything better to do I went and walked around the Alamo
 
Smoke said:
What surprised me was that it was right across the street from a Burger King. I was stationed at Ft. Sam for a while and whenever I didn't have anything better to do I went and walked around the Alamo
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Things come and go near the Alamo all the time. The last time I visited was a few years ago. Where booger king is was a saloon that had Western style shoot-outs there.
 
It might be well to remember that the battle for the Alamo, meaning to preserve it, lasted nearly a century or more.

No strong interest existed in it during the 19th Century.

The fight for money and support to save at least a portion of it went on and on.

It wasn't as if Texans were all huffing and puffing to save it starting in 1836 or through the next 100 years.

I'm glad part of it was preserved..
 
Len said:
Having visited the Alamo several times, I was always amazed at how small it is, especially when the overwhelming odds are considered.

My first thought was, "they defended this little place for almost two weeks?"

I recommend visiting near sundown. You can palpably feel the historical awe.

What a thing it must have been to hear the trumpets so near, so certain, and so final.

Len
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Go on a March 6th for the reenactment.

There never has been a decent movie about the Alamo, IMO. And that's coming from a native Texan and history buff.
 
jimmyj said:
?????? What happened
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Ozzy is supposed to have pissed on a building on the Alamo grounds. Not the chapel. the last few years he has denied it ever happened.

ETA I did some research he apparently peed on the cenotaph outside the mission
 
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Smoke said:
Ozzy is supposed to have pissed on a building on the Alamo grounds. Not the chapel. the last few years he has denied it ever happened.

ETA I did some research he apparently peed on the cenotaph outside the mission
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Interestingly enough, I heard the same story in the late '60s from a fellow from New York. Said (in around 1960) he was driving through San Antonio,from down in Mexico going back to NYC, was lost, and needed desperately to relieve himself and was confronted by "a big Sheriff looking guy".:eek:
It was 3am. He was given directions to the highway, and told in no uncertain terms to only stop for gas until he reached the next state.:mad:
This tale was related to me in San Miguel de Allende by the nephew of Ramon Mercaders' lover. (Mercader was the guy that put an ice axe into Leon Trotskys skull) :cool:
The way Matty described it, I believe it was the wall facing the street acrossfrom the Gunter. (Edit: The Menger)
 
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