Remember the Alamo

As Davy Crockett said "You all might be going to Hell but I'm going to the Alamo"

http://www.thealamo.org/history.html


which, as you can see, is right in the middle of San Antonio.

The site is a tourist trap surrounded by many shops all selling the same T-shirts but I found it remarkably moving despite my visit coinciding with that of a bunch of Shriners


http://www.shrinershq.org/Shrine/About/ShrinerPrimer.aspx

who I cannot look at without thinking of The Loyal Order of the Water Buffaloes

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/fraternities/buffaloes.html

or The Sons of the Desert

http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/html/home7.html

See what I mean?

P.S.
When I hear "Remember the Alamo" I don't think of the defenders battlecry I'm afraid... Invariably my first thought is of the punchline to Brian Glover's joke in The Slaughtered Lamb pub in American Werewolf in London

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/