[Army Guy]

Kate, great hearing from ya! Wow, Piedmont park would be neat for a wedding! But that is the home to the oldest rivalry game in the South, Auburn vs GA.

I have also been trying to reach your friend but right now we are playing "phone tag"!!!

The War Eagle Legend, is that when Auburn closed for the Civil War, all the male students went off to fight. In one of the last battles before it ended, I can't remember which one, this one Auburn student was knocked out by a blast nearby. When he woke up, the battle was over and he was left on the battlefield among the dead. As he started walking away to hopefully regain his unit, he heard a bird chirping near him. Upon looking around he found a nest in an old tree that a cannon ball had knocked over and an eaglet in it. He picked the eagle up and carried it with him. When he finally found his unit, the war was over, and he carried the eagle back to Auburn and raised it as a pet. The eagle went with him everywhere. Well, he and the eagle where at the 1st Auburn/GA game there in Piedmont park and Auburn was losing badly. During the last half of the game the eagle got away from the student and just started circling over the field. Auburn fans noticed it and started saying, "Look at the War Eagle!" And as fate would have it, as the eagle soared above them, the Auburn team began to score, and with that everyone shortened the cry to just, "War Eagle!" over and over to continue to charge the players up, and ensured an Auburn victory. Since that day, the battle cry for Auburn continues to be War Eagle!!!! And it is used as a greeting among fans, and a sign of celebration at other times. It has been said that a War Eagle cheer never goes unanswered, that somewhere in the world, another Auburn fan is always replying!

WAR EAGLE!!!!
Army Guy