DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
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Benjamin Franklin was our Nations first diplomatic ambassador, representing our interests in France from 1776 to 1785. Franklin was instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Paris in 1783 ending the Revolutionary War and establishing the United States as a new nation. On January 26, 1784 Benjamin Franklin penned a long, insightful, and sometimes humerous letter to his daughter Sarah Bache. The letter is best known for his comparison of the Eagle and the Turkey, "suggesting" the Turkey was more fitting to be our National Bird.
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For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing-hawk; and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward; the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem....
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For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours; the first of the species seen in Europe, being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and served up at the wedding table of Charles the Ninth. He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that,) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British guards, who should presume to invade his farmyard with a red coat on.
Franklin was not writing seriously, he was already using the new Eagle Seal on some of his own publications.
It is an American Myth/Legend that he truly wanted the Turkey to be the National bird IMO.
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This week, on January 26, I think it is fitting to feature the model 126 Alaskan Guide Fillet Knife.
Sporting a 6" Titanium Nitride S30V blade and Rosewood handle. Exclusive for Cabela's.
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