“He is bald, not me. I got lots of feathers on my head.” Courtesy of Town Hall
Here is something you may not know. It occupies a good three pages of Jack E. Davis’s book The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. Benjamin Franklin did not like the bald eagle and was partial to the virtues of the turkey. Franklin admitted, in a letter, that the turkey was a little “vain and silly,” and, as everyone knows, it’s also not great at flying and is hardly fierce, like the bald eagle, which is a master of one of its three meal “tables,” the sky. (The other tables being