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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- By the time Joan Harris met One Wing, the bald eagle had lived for months in captivity. He'd lost a wing and stepped carefully around his pen like a drunken sailor, yawing to one side.
At his permanent home in a long, grassy pen on Fort Richardson, he'd hop from the ground to a short perch and eye visitors with a wary, piercing gaze.
Harris, who works as an Army education counselor on Fort Richardson, found herself stopping by to visit One Wing and other birds recovering in long, narrow flight pens. The birds are under the...