Amazing Stories

Fall back!

Viva la patria!

- They're comin'over the wall! - Adelante! Arriba!

Fall back!

Jobe, go give davy a hand!

Yes, sir, mr. Bowie.

Davy!

- Davy, are you okay? - Yeah. Load!

Tear his shirt and tie my arm.

- Where's colonel travis? - He's fighting by the water supply, sir.

Yeah? You're a brave boy, jobe.

No more than you or anybody else, sir.

- How old are you? - Fifteen.

Should've gotten out with the women and children, when you had a chance.

Naw. I reckon i belong here, sir.

Your daddy would be proud of you.

- Now, go and help the colonel - What about you, sir?

Take more than a bullet to fell ol' davy crockett. Now git!

Load!

I can't believe it- pictures of the alamo.

Who would have thought that i would be-

honey, come on. I want you to get in the picture.

-Sit down. I'm gonna get us both in the picture. - Just a second.

Stan took patsy to paris for their 25th anniversary.

- I know, but what's paris compared to this? - All right.

Come on. The kids are gonna love this.

- Fred and janet went to rio for their 25th. - I know, i know.

Come on. Look happy, will you? This is gonna be on our camera.

I'm sorry, maury. I can't get excited about the alamo.

Aw, come on, honey. Well, come on.

Here. This is a once-in-a-lifetime.

Come on. How many times, do you get a chance to see the alamo?

- Don't you have a sense of history? - I've had it!

- I don't care about that! - You know Jim bowie, davy crockett was here.

Oh, come on. You must care about him.

Bring a ladder! Bring a ladder!

They're in the compound! Hurry! Hurry!

Yes, ma'am. Those are 75 cents apiece.

- I'll take these three. - Well, that's fine.

What about this one?

I don't want one of the alamo, dad.

- I want one of the iceman. - They don't have george gervin t-shirts here.

How about one that says san antonio?

All right.

- That'll do it. - all right. That's two souvenir t-shirts,

one mug, one frosted pendant and one, two, three postcards.

That'll be, uh, 24.95.

Out of 25.

- Hey, dad. This is cool. - No, no. Just put it back.

Okay. Ready? Let's go.

We thank ya. You all come back and see us now. You hear?

- I'm goin' back to the hotel and call amy. - No.

- Mom. - No way.

Get down!

Get down!

We didn't come all this far just so you could spend time on the phone.

She'll kill me if i don't call.

Get down! Please! You're gonna be killed!

- Say cheese. - Who are you?

Reload!

What are you doing here?

They're comin'over the south wall!

Who are they, colonel travis?

Get down, jobe. Where did they go?

- What the hell are ya talkin' about? - Get down!

Those people, sir. All those people- where did they go?

They're breakin'through!

Fall back! Fall back!

Watch your step as you're coming through.

Be careful now. Just follow me over into this area.

After 13 days and nights of heroic fighting,

this small band of freedom fighters succumbed to overwhelming odds...

and were wiped out to the last man.

It's a hell of a way to go.

The legendary jim bowie, after whom the bowie knife was named,

was but one of a number of famous historical people to give up their lives here.

David crockett and colonel travis were two other notables.

No! That's a lie!

Jobe! Snap out of it, jobe!

Listen to me. Listen to me carefully, son.

- I want you to get through to general lefferts. - General lefferts, sir?

You give him this. That's an order, soldier.

- Can you do it, jobe? - Yes, sir.

You're too young to die. God be with you.

Colonel travis!

Lefferts.

Shuttlecock road.

No! Please, colonel travis! No!

Please! No!

They're comin'over the wall!

I'm sorry, son, but it's closing time.

Great outfit.

Oh! Make way.

Look at him.

Come on, son. I haven't got all day.

Son, you'll have to take a seat.

No. You can't sit there. You'll have to go in the back of the bus.

Next on your tour of san antonio is the civic center.

It's the home of the san antonio spurs.

...having walked in the second inning, then flied out-

this one's free.

I'm traveling with my grandson, but he's not one for sightseeing.

He said he'd rather spend his day sitting at the pool.

I'm, um, harriet wendsell from new haven, connecticut.

Jobe farnum, ma'am. Jobe farnum.

My! What an unusual, original outfit.

Where are you from anyway, jobe?

The great free state oftexas, ma'am.

Oh! You texans are worse than new yorkers.

The great this, the great that.

- You go to school here, jobe? - No, ma'am. I'm a volunteer.

A volunteer. How wonderful.