UNESCO names the Alamo a World Heritage site

All the demands to "remember the Alamo" have finally paid off. San Antonio's Missions have been picked by UNESCO as new World Heritage sites, and among them is the Alamo Mission -- better known as the site of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, a 13-day fight against the Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna that felled Davy Crockett. The San Antonio Missions are the first Texan sites to be deemed by UNESCO as having "outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity...