I've been to the Alamo before and it is a cool place to visit. Yet, it is also unsettling. If you turn around from where I took the first shot, it is tourist central with all kinds of made in China trinkets and shops like a Ripley's Believe It or Not and a Tussaud's Wax Museum with all the favorites (Trump, Beyonce, Wonder Wonder, etc) standing in the window waiting for your tourist dollars. At some level you wonder what the battle was fought for? At the corner of the Alamo, across the side street, is a Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream shop. That area was the low fence guarding the Alamo during the battle, in the area where Kit Carson was defending the fort. I wonder what the defenders, or the attackers, for that matter, would think of the area as it is today? Would the defenders say, "No Thanks, not dying for that" or would the attackers say, "On second thought, you can keep the place".
