“This is the place where . . . Texas patriots made their last stand — the beautiful, beautiful Alamo.”

There is nothing beautiful about the Alamo. It is an important landmark in our history, but it is, appropriately, a sad, dilapidated mission. I know that POTUS doesn’t know history, but his speech writers should have known better than this. Many of Texas’ heroes — including Bowie and Crockett — died at the Alamo. Texans were slaughtered and soundly defeated at the hands of Santa Ana’s large, well-armed army.

But the Alamo was NOT their last stand. They stood victorious at San Jacinto just a few days later. and wiped out the Mexican in eighteen minutes. THIS was their last stand!