Remember the Alamo

The left relentlessly attacks every victory for America and for freedom. Let's hope the new Alamo movie resists the assault.

by Rod D. Martin
March 12, 2004

"I am beseiged. The enemy has demanded surrender at discretion...I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid...If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his honor and that of his country."

These are the words of William B. Travis, who commanded the Alamo when Texas rebelled against Mexico's despot, el Presidente General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

March 6 was the 168th anniversary of the Alamo's fall, which cost Travis his life, along with almost 180 others who went down fighting on freedom's behalf.

That, at least, is how America once viewed the Texas Revolution, which ultimately led to Texas winning its independence from Mexico.

In recent decades, this explanation has been challenged by another revolution. Starting in the late 1960s, a "counterculture" emerged from the fever swamps of the har…