Alamo Flag Found on Display in Mexico
 

DALLAS -- The only flag known to have survived the Battle of the Alamo has been found on display at a museum in Mexico, more than a decade after Mexican officials said they had lost it, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Several flags reportedly flew at the Alamo during the March 1836 battle between a small band of Texas fighters and a Mexican army 10 times their number. All except one were destroyed.

More than a decade ago, Texas officials stepped up efforts to get the flag back, but the Mexicans said they had lost it.

A reporter from The Dallas Morning News recently found the flag at Mexico's National History Museum.

It now rests in a glass case alongside 19th-century rifles. The once-blue rectangle of silk has faded to dirty white, but the gold fringe is intact and an eagle still spreads over the words "God & Liberty."

The triumphant Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna sent the surviving flag to Mexico City with a message that it would "show plainly the true intentions of the treacherous colonists and of their abettors, who came from parts of the United States of the North."

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Let's declare war on Mexico and take back the flag! :D

On a similar note, my Masonic lodge's number (Triune #15) was originally assigned to a lodge in what now would be Santa Fe, New Mexico. The expedition that was to bring the charter there was captured by the Mexicans; while the dispensation was lost, record of the capture is in the Mexican Army archives. A lodge brother actually went down to Mexico City and pulled a lot of strings just to get access to the files.

When my mother lodge was formed (in 1920) they requested the use of the unassigned lodge number; it was granted by the Grand Lodge of Texas.

We already fought with them and took half of their land mass and four of their provicios or whatever and recruited two of their break away republics. Besides, they have a civil war. Attacking them now seems too common a tactic.

We could trade them 4 million illegals for the flag. Let's start the round-up!

I think it was a fair trade. They got a flag and we got half their country.

(Which BTW, most of the nationals are still pissed about. Seriously.)

Kind of timely too. Sunday (March 6th) was the 169th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo.

God Bless Our Texas Heroes.

:o They lied to us :(

Remember the Alamo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!