Its a Texan Thing I Guess

[DenaliDemocrat]

One thing I never understood about Texans growing up in Colorado was their battlecry "Remember the Alamo!!!" they would say.

Huh? You got your asses kicked at the Alamo. Santa Ana rocked your world. Why would you want to remember that shit?

Now we have Bush "Remember 9-11". Huh? That's the biggest failure of the United States ever.

Its a Texan thing I guess. I don't get it.

[pocoloco]

1. It ain't that hard to comprehend,

they lost the battle but went on to win the war!!

[GOPisEvil]

2. "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!"

Said by the Texian Army as they routed Santa Anna's troops at San Jacinto. They were screaming that at the Mexican troops. The meaning is, remember when you thought y'all were the shit, well, take THIS.

As for what Bush means, who the hell knows with that idiot?

[crispini]

3. I dunno about the 9-11

but the Alamo, it's like a motivational thing. Remember something that MAKES YOU REALLY FECKING MAD... and you'll GET BUSY and DO SH*T.

Like, everytime I think about Shrub in the white house I go off and donate money to the DNC or type up a pamphlet or register some voters or something.

I need things that piss me off, I have a BIG picture of an oil well on my wall that I bought from the Enron office. It's perfect, environmental destruction and corporate corruption all at once. Every time I see it my blood pressure goes through the roof. I need that, if I'm not mad I sit around and loaf too much.

[liveoaktx]

4. I was at the Alamo about a month ago at the same time Sadr

was in Najaf and thought about whether Sadr would be slaughtered within the mosque and how similar it was to the Alamo story, ie, few people with great odds against them. There's something very patriotic, noble and heroic about people making a stand against a marauding enemy for a principle.

The Alamo story is not at all analgous to 911.

[mourningdove92]

5. The Remember the Alamo rallying cry

is based on the heroism of the defenders of the Alamo. They fought and died to the last man.

[Cat Atomic]

6. Remember the LMAO.

I don't know why, but that's what I think every time I read "remember the Alamo". Make of it what you will.