How do you remember The Alamo?

[loic]

So as part of our upcoming road trip through the south I was looking into what the whole Alamo thing was all about. Not growing up through the American education system my knowledge was limited. I'd learned the Davy Crocket song in French as a kid in Canada (Davy, Davy Crocket, l'homme qui n'a jamais eu peur) and I had the general sense that it was

Comments

[wronggirl]

As a product of the American education system, my knowledge is pretty much limited to Peewee's Big Adventure. Sigh.

[loic]

That's not so bad...

[ataxi]

"Eh, up Santy Anna, they're killing your soldiers belo-o-ow,
So the rest of Texas will know,
And remember the Al-a-mo ..."

Heh. The Alamo seems to have been one of the formative cultural artefacts of my father's childhood in the 50s, so I mainly remember it in the context of his nostalgia -- somehow evident to me even as a small child, if not understood -- for his inner boy when he bought me cassette audiobooks about Davy Crockett etc. My dad the eight year old boy used to write hopelessly clichéd short stage plays, that were invariably about cowboys, pirates and frontiersman.

[quog]

I remember watching some movie/tv show with Davy Crockett as the main character growing up. Although I don't think it was particularly historically accurate. I went to the Alamo in San Antonio once. It was interesting.

[dearanxiety]

i don't think i even heard of the alamo in my schooling.

[loic]

I'll have to ask Brandon what he learned. Perhaps it's all very regional. Todd says that in North Carolina he learned about the "war of northern aggression" in school.