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Remember Goliad!

Posted on September 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Remember Goliad!

FanninThe 1936 memorial to Texas militia Colonel James Fannin and his 400 men, massacred by the Mexican army in 1836, thanks in large part to their feckless commander. Nevertheless. The memorial is said to be on the site where their bodies were heaped and burned. Best version of massacre here. Worth reading.

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Slaughter at Goliad

Posted on May 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Slaughter at Goliad

Here’s a book I want to read: "Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers." JD at Brazosmouth says it breaks no new ground on the 1836 travesty but still is a good ‘un. We drive through Goliad, and past the 1936 1938 memorial (also their burying ground) to Fannin and his murdered men, every year on the way to the beach and back again. Sometimes we stop and read the historical marker. The atrocity is not well known outside of Texas, and, for that matter, not even inside Texas these days, but this book may help remedy that. I hope so. They deserve to be remembered.

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Massacre in Virginia

Posted on April 16, 2007 | Comments Off on Massacre in Virginia

With at least 22 dead and as many wounded at Virginia Tech, one is naturally tempted to wonder if this be terrorism or the sadly-usual madman-with-a-gun. The former gets a lift from lines like this at FoxNews.com:

"The students and faculty were barricading themselves in their classrooms after what one person described as an Asian student wearing a vest opened fire." (emphasis mine)

We’ll see, of course. Much will also be made of the idea that the school was a gun-free zone, meaning no right-to-carry on the campus. Of course, as Glenn Reynolds notes, that would only be observed by the law-abiding and thereby put all of them at perhaps even greater risk from such as today’s incident.

UPDATE  This time the first report was a good one: the killer may be a 24-year-old recent Chinese immigrant on a visa. I’m glad he’s dead so we don’t have to spend months hearing about this pathetic loser’s life. 

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