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grow plentiful

On-Yomi: ウツ

Koohii stories:

1) [cb4960] 9-1-2009(37): Military officers make for good fertilizer. So after a war the flowers in the military officer's graveyard grow plentiful.

2) [mcfate] 27-11-2007(18): This reminds me of the old Peter, Paul and Mary anti-war song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" The final verse talks about the graveyards of military officers being the place where flowers grow plentiful.

3) [Neobeo] 14-1-2009(6): The military officer ensures his flowers grow plentiful, because he will need a huge amount of them to offer consolation (#1096 慰) when his soldiers die.

4) [Meconium] 12-1-2010(3): This reminds me of the famous WWI poem "In Flanders Fields", about military officers who fell in battle. "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow (plentiful) In Flanders fields.".

5) [mantixen] 26-7-2009(2): Despite his notoriety, flowers grow plentiful on the military officer's grave.

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