When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

The Poppy Flower


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Do you know what the red Poppy flower represents?  These two well-known poems explain it very well.

 

In Flanders Fields

 

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row.

 

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

 

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

By John McCrae

 

The Poppy

 

Nature created a flower

With petals of brilliant red.

Who’d have thought such a beautiful flower

Would be used to remember the dead?

 

For when all the guns have stopped firing

And there’s only the mud and the rain.

God sends down his little red flowers

To cover the lads who remain.

 

So remember every November

When we hold our remembrance day,

Of the lads who lie beneath the poppies

And the price they had to pay.

Author Unknown

 

Because the price the soldiers pay for our freedom is permanent, perhaps we should celebrate the meaning of the Poppy flower every day of our lives.  We should thank every veteran we see and do everything we can to support the military that protects us now.

Remember, it is because of them that we are free!

 

Let the encouraging words in these near a river posts help you

soar like an eagle above life’s storms.

 

For any Veteran who needs a bit of help…

Remember the canine veterans, too.

There are no easy answers.

Keep the love going!

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"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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