Survivor

Having been born and raised in Texas, I have always been intrigued by the battle of the Alamo. When still very young the only things I knew about the Alamo was what I had learned during Texas History class in school and of course what I saw in the movies like the 1955 Walt Disney movie "Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier". There was also the 1960 John Wayne's movie "The Alamo" produced by John Wayne in which he also acted as David Crockett. I saw these movies more than once, and just the other day I saw a rerun of Davy Crockett King of the wild frontier. 50 years later and I am still intrigued by these movies, I mean, to have all these brave men, knowing the odds against them, and still willfully and bravely standing there, fighting the over whelming odds to the last men, is hard to comprehend. Where does such valor come form, to be willing to give it all up, just for their belief in liberty and the pursued of freedom. Not one of them ran away or surrendered, they all fought bravely to the end. No mercy was asked for and no mercy was given. Thousands and thousands of Mexican soldiers slaughtering these poor outnumbered Americans, it almost made me ashamed of being Mexican. This was commitment way beyond anything, almost unhuman. It was pride, valor, patriotism, and the American values at its greatest, true Heroes.