May 24th, 2021

The Pigeon-Rat War:
A time scantily covered in most history courses.
A scuttle well smothered through the propagandic manipulation of a bygone group and their sympathizers.
Recruitment posters like that pictured above were rampant in those days.
Few people are aware of the shadowy history behind the famous Uncle Sam poster, whose inspiration was rooted in the illustrious posters for the Pigeon-Rat conflict of the day, preceding Uncle Sam by roughly two decades.
The war against the Rats of the Sky was a dark time in American Rat history, and the side of the Rats, just as with the Bubonic Plague, was greatly slanted so as to form a slide that would viciously propel them down the slope difficult to reclimb; they lost their honour.
The Rats were no longer (and there was a time, bleak now) loved and pampered in the city streets. Their wings had been clipped, replaced with the true wings of the Rats of the Sky.
The Pigeons are now fed our scraps. They have the position of honour. They are one with the civilians.
They have taken our place.
The frays still erupt every now and again, but the eruption is only a mild disruption, made dormant as the pigeons take flight.
This historic movement is not over, and the injustice may still be undone.
Teachers, tell your students about the Pigeon-Rat War.
Students, listen eagerly.
Rats, encourage Sewer Travel, awareness, and the Joy of the Rats.