INTRODUCTION

• Published in: Remembering the Alamo p. xiii
• Main Author: RICHARD R. FLORES
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Texas Press 01.01.2010
• Subjects: American literature; American studies; Anthropology; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Cognitive psychology; Collective memory; Comparative literature; Cultural history; Ethnography; Ethnology; Heroes; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of the Americas; Human societies; Latin American literature; Latin American studies; Literary characters; Literary elements; Literary history; Literary studies; Literature; Memory; Modern literature; North American history; Protagonists; Psychology; Social events; Social life; Sociology; United States history; World literature
• ISBN: 0292725396; 9780292725393

I no longer recall the month or the week, only the place. Wrapped in our winter coats, gloves, scarves, and hats, my third-grade class was on its first field trip of the year. The thrill of leaving behind workbooks filled with three-place addition and subtraction problems was electrifying. The trip, like many of those that would follow in my elementary school years, was to the Alamo: bastion of Texas liberty and memorial to brave men. I had passed by it numerous times before, on my way to see my father, who worked at the pharmacy across the street. I remember