From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: For American People
Date: 18 Sep 2001 07:11:07
Message: <3ba72bcb$1@news.povray.org>
"Andrea Ryan" <ary### [at] global2000net> wrote in message
news:3BA550DD.CF9D2800@global2000.net...
> Thank you. The red ones remind me of the red poppies that gave hope to> soldiers during the first (or second?) World War in Europe.> Brendan
Well, sort of... Poppies grew in great profusion on the WW1 battlefields. They
are therefore associated with Rememberence Day. It's always struck me as a bit
morbid, given the reason their growth was (presumably) so prolific...