Eagle feather thread

[macwilkin]

[FONT="Georgia"]In Scotland, not in the US, anyone can walk with feathers in their caps. No one is entitled or 'authorized to wear them or not in this side of the pond.

Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. A number of US citizens are also armigers and are authorized by heraldic organizations such as the Lyon Court, College of Arms, etc. to bear arms and wear feathers as armigers. They are bona fide and have the credentials to prove it.

And I must point out that being an armiger and being an American citizen are not contradictory -- and if you don't believe me, then perhaps the words of George Washington on the subject would be appropriate:

it is far from my design to intimate an opinion that heraldry, coat-armour, &c., might not be rendered conducive to public and private uses with us; or that they can have any tendency unfriendly to the purest spirit of republicanism.

-- Letter to William Barton, September 1788

More information about Washington's arms may be found here:

http://americanheraldry.org/pages/in...ent.Washington

Regards,

Todd