Re: 97 lines?

[pptjc@vaxk.bton.ac.uk (It's in the trees... It's coming...)]

In article <9405102251.tn375807@aol.com>, silo@aol.com writes:
>Mirko, you write:
>
>> I hope this won't be lost in heap of KonvenTion impressions. What does
>> the following line (Army Dreamers) mean:
>
>> Tears o'er a tin box
>
>Tears over a metal coffin.
> 
>---Mike Knight
>silo@aol.com

Peter Chow from Brighton (UK) adds:

I've seen this question a couple of times now today and I've always thought
that it was a metal casket too but now that I come to think about it some
more it occurred to me that you only get shipped back in a metal casket
(lead to be exact) if you've been exposed to radiation. This song appears
to relate to the first or second World War type of era so the metal casket
idea doesn't really stand. 

However, it then occurred to me that what his mother might have is a small 
metal biscuit tin with the letters and personal effects of her son, such 
as the "strips and ribbons" that were awarded posthumously to him. It would
make sense then that in the months and years that followed she would get out
this little tin every now and then and read his last words or look at photos.

This seems a much more satisfactoy anwer to me now. What do you lot out there
think?