Footnote -
After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park ,
forest rangers
began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's
damage.
One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched
statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat
sickened by
the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick.
When he gently
struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under
their dead mother's wings.
The loving mother, keenly aware of
impending disaster, had carried her
offspring to the base of the
tree and had gathered them under her wings,
instinctively knowing
that the toxic smoke would rise.
She
could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her
babies. Then the
blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her
small body, the mother had
remained steadfast ...because she had
been willing to die, so those
under the cover of her wings would live.
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