[Iris7]

Hi, Snippy,

David Crockett was everything you say, perhaps more.

My own point of view about the Battle of San Jacinto is that it is as good an example as there is of a correctly timed, planned, and executed counter-attack as occurs in history. Lovely, lovely. Perfect. Must be some Grace (and luck) involved!

I went to the Alamo, erased the modern buildings with the mind's eye, looked at the fields of fire with a veteran's appreciation: bad place, death ground, as Sun Tsu would put it. Everybody defending had to have seen it the same way. Brave men.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for your insight, we really enjoy when our readers give us their view and experiences on our topics. I have to say though this is SAMWolf's work not mine. LOL.

Believe me, I could never do as good a job as SAM does. I'm just posting SAM's work while his in-laws are visiting for a couple weeks.

I've never been to the Alamo. I understand what you say about removing current buildings from the minds eye while viewing historic places. Last year I was in Virginia visiting battlefields and doing the same thing.

[SAMWolf]

The Alamo is one place I want to see even though people tell me I'll be disappointed because only the Chapel exists and it is in a buuilt up area. Those are the people that don't understand the awe of just standing on the same ground as the men who fought there. And like you and Snippy, removing the modern lanscape and using the minds eye to picture it as it was in 1836.

I did the same in Belguim when I vivisted the Battle of the Bulge sites at Malmady, St. Vith, Bastonge and Clearvaux. I could picture those places in the winter of 1944 and appreciate what happened.