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Old 10-09-2008, 01:36 PM
epchick epchick is offline
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Originally Posted by SATX*APhi View Post
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom.
I just have to say that I absolutely HATE when I read things like this, to me it's inaccurate.

I guess it depends on how you are looking at it, but I don't consider it a fight for "freedom." Santa Anna & the rest of Mexico were not the bad guys, it was their land.
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