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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 650652, member: 19122&quot;]I enjoyed the article, and think it thread of the week worthy, I would like some more information what was the thinking behind a &quot;friendlier&quot; eagle? Was it some sort of thinking that our national symbol should be approachable and benign, and by extension the government would also be seen as benign and approachable?</p><p>&nbsp;Was it that during the cold war the soviet union was accusing our lunar expeditions as being sinister and imperialistic, and a friendlier eagle was a response to the characterization?</p><p>&nbsp;When I think of an eagle the characteristic of friendliness is not there. The eagle connotes to me majesty, strength, power, economy of motion in flight. I remember quite a few years ago when my wife was expecting our son, I was walking home from work, I would cut through a golf course on the way home, and then I saw an eagle flying under some tall trees, it was impressive especially since it was the first in the wild eagle I had seen. Seeing an eagle in flight evokes an emotion of awe, how can something so large, seem to take to flight so effortlessly?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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