Not everyone finds joy in sunflowers


Memorial: The sky is reflected in the national MH17 monument in Vijfhuizen, Netherlands, which carries the names of the victims of MH17.

AMSTERDAM: Sunflowers normally bring out smiles, with their cheerful yellow hues.

Not so for Piet Ploeg, who lost his older brother Alex, his sister-in-law and nephew when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

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