And Lo! It is only the willing who know, it is not the eagle which should symbolize American progress, but the Snowy Owl! The owl of the genus of bubo, the Knight of the right honorable Order of Strigiformes, Class of Aves, Prince of the Phylum Chordata of the Kingdom Animalia. This civilzed beast of such a noble lineage does not scavenge for its meal atop relics of old and antiquity! No! It does not prey on carrion from the sea who have given up their passion for life! It would not lower itself to such an uncivilized and dishonorable temper as the eagle has left in his wake of 231 years of laying waste to his hunting grounds.
No! The Snowy Owl does, what in glorious splendour any creature of virtue will, by its honour and grace, do. It will keep in waiting, leaving naught of its form visible, naught of its sound audible, yet all of its virtue laudable. It will let its prey run, unless to succumb to the skill of its hunt. It will live in its land unimpeded, yet integrated, no less perfect than the snowflakes of his nightly bedchamber, majestic, passionate, and deserving his rightful throne amongst the creatures of this kingdom of nature.
Progress knows only one creature as the exemplification of all in this world that is purely virtutous, and in accordance with coalition principles, The Snowy Owl would like to bestow, through his blessed patronage, his grace upon this coalition, making plain the desire to be a symbol of coalition forces for what time existence has hitherto placed us....
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