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Unread 8 Jan 2004, 18:20   #1
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The Alamo

Is it just me, or is the Alamo monument to Texan stupidity?

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It didn't need to be defended and servered no stragetic value.

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It was designed to keep people in, not out making it a poor choice for defense.
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Re: The Alamo

What are you saying? That the people who died at the Alamo shouldn't be remembered?
I don't see why they shouldn't.
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Unread 8 Jan 2004, 18:25   #3
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Re: The Alamo

Yes, they should be remebered. We need to learn our lesson from history not to waste human life on a wasted stragtic point.

No really, they where brave and all, but they where still morons.

Oh and let us not forget they where fighting yes for independence from those sneaky Mexicans who let them move into their terriory but the biggest reason was cause they wanted to keep their slaves (hahah civil war later on) that Mexico said no to.
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Re: The Alamo

Why do you call the individual soldiers morons, when it's generally generals (hoho) and the like who make strategic decisions of this nature?
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Re: The Alamo

Davey Crockett wasn't a moron.
He wore a cool hat
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Re: The Alamo

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Why do you call the individual soldiers morons, when it's generally generals (hoho) and the like who make strategic decisions of this nature?
True. So its a monument to the commander officer who is the moron. Its still a monument to stupidity.
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True. So its a monument to the commander officer who is the moron. Its still a monument to stupidity.
I'm pretty sure that war memorials are to the people who gave their lives, and the like.
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Unread 8 Jan 2004, 19:00   #8
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something ozzy osbourne pissed on
a big wall if I remember correctley :P
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Is it just me, or is the Alamo monument to Texan stupidity?

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It didn't need to be defended and servered no stragetic value.
But by the same token, it didn't need to be taken. The 100 or so defenders were no real threat. The time, men and supplies Santa Anna wasted taking the Alamo would have been better spent chasing down and defeating Sam Houston's forces. As it was, Santa Anna ended up weakening his forces considerably (and buying Houston valuable time) before losing the decisive battle at San Jacinto.
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Unread 8 Jan 2004, 19:06   #10
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Re: The Alamo

Most of the same argument can be used for the insane pointless loss of life that was World War I.
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Unread 8 Jan 2004, 19:07   #11
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the alamo was proof that generals never have intelligence ever.
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Re: The Alamo

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Most of the same argument can be used for the insane pointless loss of life that was World War I.
I was going to refer to that
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Re: The Alamo

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Is it just me, or is the Alamo monument to Texan stupidity?

It didn't need to be defended and servered no stragetic value.
In Texas history we learned that the reason for defending the Alamo was to slow Santa Ana down so that Sam Houston would have time to finish gathering and training his Army. I think the strategy worked.
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Re: The Alamo

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Most of the same argument can be used for the insane pointless loss of life that was World War I.
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Re: The Alamo

thats like saying stalingrad was pointless to defend

its about moral
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Re: The Alamo

#the-alamo was great, until everyone ****ed off and got a life.
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Re: The Alamo

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Most of the same argument can be used for the insane pointless loss of life that was World War I.

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