Candelaria account

Isn't it interesting that her story changes about as many times as she told it? First it was a bayonet thrust which cut her chin, now it was a bullet, and I even think I read once that she said it was a rifle butt which struck her face. I don't care how old you are, such things are burned into your memory...if they are real, that is.
I used to know guys like this, who had some tangential connection to an event, and, knowing that most people wouldn't, or couldn't really check their facts, made themselves into action heros.
Candelaria may have been in San Antonio at the time, and may even have been in the Alamo for a part of the siege. But my guess is that she bugged out with most of the other non-combatants when offered the chance by the Mexicans. Once all or most of the adults who could have refuted her story were dead, she began weaving her yarn. She just should have remembered to get her story straight....