Here are some views from benches in Texas, USA that I have been recently sent. One bench is from the coast at Galveston, looking out into the Gulf of Mexico - note that the concrete benches have been recently damaged, not by vandals, but by Hurricane Ike, which caused much devastation to parts of Texas in September 2008. The others are from San Antonio showing the mission chapel which was at the centre of the Battle of the Alamo.

In March, 1836, Davy Crockett, with 139 others, was massacred at the Alamo. Usually, in battles, someone is left to tell the story, but the Alamo had no one. One hundred and eighty-seven men for eleven days withstood the Mexican army of the despot, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. When the battle was done, all of the one hundred eighty-seven brave Americans, including Davy Crockett, lay dead on the ground; but with them also lay over two thousand Mexicans, who had died at their hands.

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