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[William Barnett-Lewis]

>This is more than a bit OT, but I feel compelled to ask:

>The quote in your signature - I'm just a dumb retired engineer, so I don't do poetry >well.  I thought I followed that quote until I got to the unfurled flag.
>I was getting images of a winter night, with snow on the ground, and lots of silver >blue/gray and black silhouettes of leafless trees and such.  Then came
>the flag.  Are we in a military burial ground on a winter night?  Elucidation, please.

It's from a song about the moon landings. She wrote it in the 70's when
it looked like it might be "awhile" before we got back. It was sung at a
Challenger memorial service and it was in that context that I was using
it. 

The whole can be found here:
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/filk/hopeeyri.htm

But I did decide it was too obscure and changed my sig again.

>Bill Martin

William 
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report.