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Post by quincannon on Jul 29, 2016 16:56:32 GMT
And I have the same problem with public drunks and boys being boys, and it only continues if it is allowed to continue. Should it upset your wife? Your damned right it should. Does it upset men? Be advised it does.
Be also advised it was your post that threw this thread off track. Also be advised I will answer anything I feel unjust to an American Citizen.
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Post by dave on Jul 29, 2016 17:18:49 GMT
I fully admit to opening this matter and I apologize. I am not in favor of denying anyone their legal rights and so let us move on. Regards Dave
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Post by quincannon on Jul 29, 2016 17:40:08 GMT
I knew that, you are too good a man for it to be otherwise.
Let us then go forth together.
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Post by Beth on Jul 29, 2016 23:01:39 GMT
Remember the Alamo?
Chuck what would be your pet Alamo project if you could pick one? Is there an area that you feel that has not been explored that should be?
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Post by quincannon on Jul 30, 2016 0:21:39 GMT
Were it up to me I would level the three or four square blocks around the place and restore, as best as possible to a cleaned up version of the place in 1836. Only cost a billion or so, so let me content myself with:
Taking the existing structures and making them as attractive, accurate, and visitor friendly as possible.
Making a full blown restoration and preservation efforts, to insure that the structure is completely sound for the next two hundred years.
Get rid of the businesses across the plaza and expanding the park are so that it may flow seamlessly into River Walk.
Construct a theater, with an appropriate visual production, somewhat similar to "Williamsburg The Story of A Patriot". If you have ever seen that one that has been showing for about sixty years, staring the late Jack Lord, you will know how powerful a presentation it is. It puts you in the time and place. Now the Alamo story is not being adequately told by the Alamo itself.
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Post by Beth on Jul 30, 2016 0:24:43 GMT
Perhaps because they made it a shrine instead of a historic place?
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Post by mac on Jul 30, 2016 13:40:55 GMT
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Post by Beth on Jul 30, 2016 15:14:18 GMT
That is cool.
I believe that to get most people interested in history you have to make it alive and relevant. Old buildings that you walk about in a whisper just show you where an event happened but they can be very poor at giving you the who, how and why.
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Post by quincannon on Jul 30, 2016 16:07:18 GMT
"Defend our rights and liberties" Is it no wonder our nations are so closely tied?
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