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Wartime Stories, Letters & Poetry #2

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donaldbyers


1/26/2016 10:10:33 PM
Alamo likely late 50's early 60's that I picked up at a church garage sale.




A Poem that was written by my then 12 year old Aunt.

The Alamo
by Donna Vee McCarson

Have you ever visited the Alamo
Where many well-educated people go?
There's where Texas was inspired,
There's where many a bullet was fired.

Mexico won -- Texas Lost.
Women and children paid the cost.
Travis, Bowie, Crockett fell;
All the rest fought very well.
That was the battle that lasted for days,

People were killed in many ways.
Trophies now lie in that old Alamo,
And if you ever get a chance, be sure and go.

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This poem on Texas history was composed by a youthful poet
of 12 years, Donna Vee McCarson of Aubrey, Texas, niece of Mrs. J.H. Bullock of Boling and appeared in the local paper.




Don Byers

Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.