Forgetting the Alamo

It's disgraceful that the mother of the mayor of San Antonio would say a thing like this:

Maria del Rosario Castro, the mother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, said in 2010 that she grew up being told the battle was “glorious,” only to learn the so-called heroes were really “a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them.”

“But as a little girl I got the message -- we were losers,” she told The New York Times Magazine. “I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for.”

So sad that the defenders of the Alamo stood so bravely, only to have their city handed over to the son of a nasty reconquista who bashes their memory. But, ironically what really chaps me is this "informative" paragraph later in the Fox News Story about her statement:

The Alamo, then a sprawling mission for missionaries and American Indian converts, was attacked in February 1836 by Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Though historical accounts vary, Texans, including famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, fought back for 13 days only to surrender, on March 6.

"Only to surrender" Surrender? Yeah, sure, if by "surrender" you mean "fought to virtually the last man." What the hell are they teaching in school these days?