Man accused of carving name into wall inside the Alamo

[Tufty 🌹]

In Rome there are countless names and pictures carved into the walls from the classical period right up to the 20th century and personally I see that as good, because in a hundred years time the person who wrote 'Alfred was here' in 2011 will be a subject of historical importance. Like the graffiti in Pompeii that says 'show us your hairy privates' and 'Secundus is gay'

But that graffiti is on a specific monument of specific importance and is therefore reprehensible in every sense

[Grenadiac]

[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;48629773]In Rome there are countless names and pictures carved into the walls from the classical period right up to the 20th century and personally I see that as good, because in a hundred years time the person who wrote 'Alfred was here' in 2011 will be a subject of historical importance. Like the graffiti in Pompeii that says 'show us your hairy privates' and 'Secundus is gay'

But that graffiti is on a specific monument of specific importance and is therefore reprehensible in every sense[/QUOTE]

That's great. Rome on the whole isn't a memorial site for a massacre, either. It's a bit rude to carve your name into the Alamo.

[Mudbone]

Regardless you shouldn't be carving your name into anything that does not belong to you....

[OvB]

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48629406]Are you seriously suggesting that some Mexicans care so much about something that happened so long ago? Like what? He likely did it for the same reason tourists carve their names into the Colosseum.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48629433]Actually yeah, that's exactly what I'm suggesting - [I]possibly[/I][/QUOTE]

If he was trying to make a statement he probably would've done more than write his name. Nor do I see how cultural disgust plays a role. Disgust for what?

[editline]7th September 2015[/editline]

If you're trying to make a statement about how bad Texas might be to Mexicans, you should probably vandalize something that's [I]not[/I] a memorial to a war in which Mexico executed prisoners and surrendering soldiers, because they were Texians.