{"id":35587,"date":"2016-07-22T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T03:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35587"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:16:50","slug":"war-eagle-old-abe-dna-tested-but-scientific-results-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/22\/war-eagle-old-abe-dna-tested-but-scientific-results-are-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"War Eagle “Old Abe” DNA Tested, But Scientific Results are Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oldabe\"Old Abe was an eagle who was a mascot of sorts for Company C of the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. According to a local article<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Old Abe remains the inspiration for the bald eagle logo representing the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, there’s a long-running controversy over whether Abe was a boy or a girl. So the museum that has feathers reportedly from the bird had them DNA tested.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Veterans Museum director Michael Telzrow said museum officials arranged for the UW-Madison Biotechnology Center Molecular Archaeology Group to conduct DNA tests on four of the eagle\u2019s feathers to solve a 150-year-old mystery…<\/p>\n

The results of recent DNA testing were announced Thursday: Old Abe, Wisconsin\u2019s celebrated \u201cWar Eagle,\u201d was a male.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But as we all now know,\u00a0whether the bird was male or female has nothing to do with its DNA.<\/p>\n

In compliance with the new social view on sexuality, the bird’s gender wasn’t based on its anatomy or its biology. Regardless of science, its gender was based on how it felt.<\/p>\n

So it seems we’ll never know. Pity.<\/p>\n

Repeated at the Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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