>>>You probably already know this but turkeys were close to being the national bird way back when, in which case they would not have been on our dinner tables every Thanksgiving. We would have been eating eagles instead. (Gak). Ben Franklin is credited with changing the decision.
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>>Not quite right. Franklin proposed using the turkey. http://www.greatseal.com/symbols/turkey.html
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>Sorry, a brain fart. I had the Ben Franklin part right but he wanted the turkey to be the national bird, not the eagle.

Oh my... the Philadelphia Turkeys?