The History of the Peace Symbol

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By Mark Anthony Leaver
Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food..
.. oops, wrong story, wrong decade
The Peace symbol
was designed in 1958, by a man named Gerald Holtom from
the UK. He designed it to be a human being in despair.

He took a human being

, turned it upside down

to represent the earth, and voila, our peace symbol

and put it in a circle

1958.

Before the first peace march of 1958 Gerald said, I made a mistake. Human beings
are not in despair. We are coming together for a good cause. We are about to walk
50 miles across England together. I change my mind.
peace symbol changed his mind to this

The designer of the

in 1958.

He worked for an alleged bad guy, Bertrand Russell. He said no, no, nowere going
to keep the symbol like this
and Im going to come up with some excuses why
it should stay this way. And he has been successful for 56 years now.

Lets go back in time and see whats up with this symbol.

First stop WWll: The SS soldiers of Nazi Germany wore this symbol

, without

the circle
, proudly on their collar. It represents death. Its also on their
tombstones. It represents death.

Whats the opposite of death? Life

. It is that simple.

Next stop: 2000 years ago, Roman emperor Nero was crucifying the early Christians

. One in particular (Peter) he flipped upside down

cross from 2000 years ago.

. This is Neros

Even further back in time, Rune stones, old rocks with symbols etched into them.
This symbol represents life

. This symbol represents death

Gerold Holtom died in 1985. His last will and testament request was to fix the peace
symbol on his tombstone. They denied his request. I have a picture of his tombstone

Heres the other half of the equation, your other peace symbol.

If you take the Peace symbol the way Gerald wanted it to be

and compare it

with your hand peace symbol

, you will notice that they are similar for the first
time in 56 years. They are both going up and out.

This symbol

has a nickname. It is called "The tree of life".

Everything on the planet, including you and me, grows up and out.

This also has a nickname

. It is called "The sword of death".

At the bottom is your handle. Two side protectors, one on each side, so you dont
hurt yourself and the sword coming up through the middle. The "sword of death" will
give you peace, but not very peacefully.

8 and a half billion people do not know this story. Thats why Im here.
With knowledge comes responsibility. Now YOU must tell people about the peace
symbol.
I have known about the peace symbol being upside down since 2008. I read about it
at Theyfly.com, Figu.org and FutureOfMankind.co.uk. It wasnt until I read about it a
year ago in mainstream media that I was able to start broadcasting this loudly.
National Geographic published a 50 year anniversary book called "Peace, the

biography of a symbol". 176 pages on the peace symbol. 3 pages dedicated to the
designer.
4 important things - 1.Human being in despair 2.Designer turned his symbol over.
No one else did. 3. Last will and testament. For some unknown reason he did not get
his request. 4. A picture of his tombstone. These pages are readable in a photo
album called "pieces of the puzzle" at Facebook " Get Peace Right".
I read wild and crazy things. This is the least of them.