Educrats: Forget the Alamo

Progressives understand that when they destroy the pride we take in our history, they have destroyed Americans as a people. That is the motive behind the War on Statues, which started with heroes of the South and quickly expanded to Columbus and the Founding Fathers. Our heroes must be discredited, then forgotten — even the heroes of the Alamo.

At the Alamo, a handful of giants revered to this day chose to fight to the death against insuperable odds rather than surrender or escape. Their sacrifice bought time for Sam Houston, who soon afterward turned the tide in the Texan war of independence. Cries of “Remember the Alamo!” motivated Texans at the decisive battle of San Jacinto. To this day, “Remember the Alamo” resonates with Americans and with anyone else who honors fortitude.

Almost 2 centuries later, the Alamo is under attack once again:

The Alamo has been compared to the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, in which an outnumbered Greek army fended off a much larger Persian army for several days before being annihilated. But a committee streamlining the state’s history curriculum standards has removed the word “heroic” from a proposed revision of the curriculum because it is “a value-charged word.”

Calling heroes like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis “heroes” implies that they were the good guys. Some would prefer future generations to see them as the bad guys and then forget them altogether.

The Texas State Board of Education Social Studies TEKS Streamlining Work Groups not only does not want the heroic defenders referred to as “heroic defenders,” it also wants to consign Travis’s “Victory of Death” letter to the Memory Hole. Teachers are expected to “spend less time on the analysis of the letter.”

There are fewer than 250 words in that letter, but they go to the heart of what Texans think about themselves and about this state.

The letter also goes to the heart of what Americans think about themselves and about this country.

Before it gets erased altogether, maybe we should memorize it, like in Fahrenheit 451. Here it is, dated February 24, 1836:

To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World—

Fellow Citizens & compatriots—

I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch — The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country — Victory or Death.

William Barrett Travis.

Lt. Col. comdt.

P. S. The Lord is on our side — When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn — We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves.

Travis

That’s how this country was built — not with the sniveling of self-proclaimed victims but with the resilience of heroes who refused to yield.

Governor Greg Abbott gets it:

If America is to survive political correctness, we need to remember Travis’s letter. We need to remember the Alamo.

On tips from daPenguin and 1-Bodhisattva.

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