Remembering the Alamo

Death and Doomed Men My own fascination with the Last Stand known as the Alamo began when, as a kid, I saw Fess Parker as Davy Crockett and movies like The Last Command and John Wayne’s The Alamo. Although the Alamo is a Texas saga, its universal meaning is evidenced by kids wearing coonskin caps from California to Missouri to Maine. So what is it that makes the Alamo so appealing, and so important? The men of the Alamo have come down to us with their heroic halo still relatively intact;