The Alamo

I visited the Alamo over Spring Break and have done so several times before in my life, as is required when growing up in San Antonio, Texas.  The event itself that surrounds the treasured history of the Alamo is one filled with rich details of heroism and self-sacrifice and much is known about the personalities of the people that fought their last fight behind its walls. 

Yet the Museum seems to pay little tribute in knowledge or artifacts present in the present day.  You would expect a museum with several exhibits telling about Davy Crockett, the man mythically known for wrestling a bear, or about Col. Travis and all the other men that have legacies bigger than their name.  

Instead, all that can be seem is a few simple set ups that shown pictures and diagrams of what it might have look like before the war and a couple known artifacts from the time but their are no need for tour guides because it the space is one room no larger than the ground space of one individual movie theater.  Outside, it contains a beautiful garden that has plenty of spots to sit and reflect but that would be more fitting in an art museum.  

The Alamo is a museum dedicated to a major battle and bloodshed and is a topic known by all major American history buffs and they want to know  the juicy details and see items that might hvae been worn by their heros. 

Sorry Alamo, you still to this day have let me down.