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Saw this article in the Daily Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6884677/Researchers...
Life is filled with interesting twists. I would like to know if they ever do a DNA study of Queen Elizabeth I. Apparently, I read some time ago they think she may have been intersexed too, but instead of Pulaski, may have been biologically male but developed as a female.
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Misleading...
Misleading...
As nice as it would be for it to be true, the truth is it has never been proven that the person buried is actually Pulaski. Pulaski's death is shrouded in mystery as accounts vary and can't be proven. Even the exhumation and examination can't prove that it was him as the wounds aren't consistent with what he is known to have suffered from...the DNA may show that the person was intersex, but can't prove that it was him.
He wouldn't be the first major figure to be intersexed or more female than male, but sadly we can't tout him as being what he may not be due to lack of conclusive evidence. It would be an insult to him to have someone else touted as being him when it isn't him at all.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
The article refers to a DNA match
According to the Daily Mail article, there is a DNA match to a relative of his, a ggg niece, I believe.
So, it is likely, not certain yet, but likely.
This link is linked to the
This link is linked to the story as the group who proclaimed the discovery
That actual DNA test of relations was inconclusive and was tainted due to contamination by water. Their evidence that it is him is based on the body having heavily ridden which isn't actually proof as horse riding was common especially as a means of travel. And the injuries are common, so they too aren't proof.
The truth is they haven't confirmed anything at all, the person may be intersex but they have never actually proven that it was Pulaski buried there. Accounts vary, with all due respect to the researchers they are trying to make headlines and not actually able to prove that the person is actually Pulaski. Given that Savannah was looking for a hero they latched onto Pulaski to make him into a martyr for the Revolution and needed a body that may not be him to bury in a tomb.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
So what you are saying is ...
that this is 'fake news.' Sorry to hear that. The article appearing in the Daily Mail had the timbre of being right. Still, there are sources of DNA in the bones that yet may yield a definitive answer. Only time will tell.
In the meantime, I didn't know Savannah was so desperate for a war hero. But, then again, South Carolina, where my Ancestors came from, had Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox. So proud were they of their SC hero, the name 'Marion' often shows up in my genealogical research of South Carolina as a forename just as 'Lee' does for Virginia descendants.
The only place I have seen 'Pulaski' show up as a reference to him is in Star Trek The Next Generation, which forever ruined my fond childhood memories of watching Muldaur play the sophisticated and beautiful romantic foil in the TV series 'McCloud' to Dennis Weaver's simple down home cowboy. I used to imagine that when they were in private, the "awe shuck's ma'am" had a few letters replaced in that phrase. *blush*
Sorry I am so dense
I was reading this the other day in someone's blog ...
And it occurred to me that I should have mentioned to this person a rule I learned so many years ago from Zig Ziglar which is something I try to practice myself -- "The next thing out of your mouth should benefit the other person."
I really owe that person an apology for not taking the time to mention it.
The other axiom I was taught was by a gentleman by the name of John Maxwell which is also true and speaks to what this fine person was going through -- "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
I pray if I get to the point that I tell someone I give up, I haven't told them I don't care about them. Because I want them to become better, not bitter.