The Peace Chain
Tuesday, 21. July 2009, 20:09:58
This is a post in response to Claude`s initiative of creating a chain of peace. I`m adding a new link to the chain and hope you readers will like the idea and join it. Here`s a link to Claude`s blog: http://my.opera.com/holdowicz-claude/blog/ Claude invited me to the The Peace Chain.
I am pleased with inviting, I want to join The Peace Chain. Poles want the peace very much. In my country even not a long time ago it was restlessly. In Poland in 1981 r. authorities implemented the martial law, during which many people stayed killed or closed in prisons. The martial law lasted three years. It was a time of the great violence in my country. I remember tanks in the streets of my city. It is terrible feeling, you just cannot know what will happen. The ordinary men fought with the socialist system, and authorities sent tanks against them.
13 December 1981 r. in the morning Poles unexpectedly saw the army in the streets.
Such events took place in Poland 1981 - 1983
The ordinary men fought for the freedom then, but great participation in this fight had also a song. Claude wrote that even the song could do a lot .. for The Peace. I want to tell about one of songs which supported us very much in those difficult times. Songs of the band U2 often refers to current events in world. Song under the title "New Year's Day" is devoted to the situation in Poland during the martial law. Words of the song aren't telling directly about events in Poland. Bono didn't relate events, but he handed his emotions over. It is a song about love, however inspired with situation of the ordinary men standing in the face of difficult times. Bono confessed that: "subconsciously I had to think about detaining Lech Wałęsa, about the fact that his wife wasn't allowed to see him. When we recorded this song they announced, that martial law in Poland, will be canceled in the new year. Remarkable.”
Now the song often resounds at concerts. Poles remember the song was written specially for them after implementing the martial law, therefore at the concert in Chorzów in 2005 r. during a concert tour Vertigo, fans prepared unusual surprise. Internauts wrote to each other, and therefore at the concert 80 000 people at the stadium created the huge Polish flag. When the first tacts of the song sounded, suddenly all fans beneath the stage raised red flags and scarves, and white flags on podiums of the stadium. In this way the entire stadium in a flash looked as large white- red flag. This made huge impression on the band. Bono took the jacket off, he put the jacket on again, but the lining fabric was visible now. The jacket had red lining fabric!, and in this way Bono became the part of our flag.
In the band’s biography "U2 by U2" we will find his statement: "visiting Poland was the most wonderful moment of the entire tour, when I stood on the stage and I turned to the audience, entire stadium of 80 000 people, was white and red. From the impression I didn’t knew if to sing or not. It was an unusual emotional moment for everyone who could see it ".
The song can do really much for the peace and then everyone remember it for a long time. These are the wonderful memories.
The music and other activity of U2 is contributing to the Peace in world and therefore Bono, received the award in Paris "Man of Peace 2008". Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded a prize, including Lech Wałęsa and the ex-president Frederik RSA de Klerk. Remarkable.
Here is the Chain for Peace...
l_ArtMan: "I vote for Peace for the whole World. Let it be. Make love not war."
http://my.opera.com/I_ArtMan/blog/peace-is-possible
Virgilia: Pax et felicitas semper omnibus!
http://my.opera.com/Virgilia/blog/chain
MAJULIE: La chaîne est plus facile à faire que la paix...
http://my.opera.com/MAJULIE/blog/2009/05/10/la-paix-sur-terre
Villain: I don't think you'll like it, but that's what I think.
http://my.opera.com/Villain/blog/2009/05/13/478-chain-for-peace-in-the-world
solzinho: Paz Para A Raça Humana.
http://my.opera.com/solzinho/blog/paz-para-a-ra
yulenka: ... nice idea to find a way to connect all people around the World, this way in honor of Peace.
http://my.opera.com/yulenka/blog/show.dml/3239607
Liu: Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do, ever !!
http://my.opera.com/%20Liu/blog/2009/05/14/beauty-is-around-everywhere
theresainnamibia: People who believe that everone can do something to work for world's peace
http://my.opera.com/TheResa75/blog/2009/05/16/peace-chain
And Theresa hopes to help poor family in Namibia here:
http://my.opera.com/theresainnamibia/blog/2009/05/15/new-sponsorships-needed-neue-paten-gesucht
robertsglyn1: People ...just being at peace and having fun
http://my.opera.com/robertsglyn1/blog/show.dml/3256797
norfrid: As a child I used to read this prayer of St.Francis that my grandfather had in a frame on his bedroom
http://my.opera.com/norfrid/blog/chain-for-peace-in-the-world
Arnekrilu: This blog is mainly about tolerance, and how difficult it is to live "the good life"
http://my.opera.com/Arnekrilu/blog/2009/05/20/tolerance-love-and-peace
noah counte: I know that every stone I cast ripples outward.
http://my.opera.com/noah%20counte/blog/2009/05/25/peace-chain
ellinidata: When my young came home from school this afternoon, and asked "mom are there any new interesting posts on Opera lately?"
http://my.opera.com/ellinidata/blog/2009/05/29/teen-joins-the-peace-chain
norskblu: I can say I am a lucky person, living in a free democratic country
http://my.opera.com/norskblu/blog/2009/07/01/chain-of-peace
jean22: I saw first the word "Peace" I said to myself WOW...
http://my.opera.com/jean22/blog/chain-peace
macmahn: Just the list
http://my.opera.com/macmahn/about/
daxonmacs: Ordinary flowers, extraordinary people.
http://my.opera.com/daxonmacs/blog/2009/09/05/ordinary-flowers-extraordinary-people
PainterWoman: Haven't named the poem yet....maybe A Reason for Peace?
http://my.opera.com/PainterWoman/blog/2009/09/11/peace-chain-continues-2
malina007: Peace and love
http://my.opera.com/malina007/blog/2009/09/16/peace-from-claude-blog
SummerAngel: Visitors Please Click on the Dove
http://my.opera.com/SummerAngel/blog/2009/09/30/come-on-and-join-the-peace-train
Changing_woman: I hope and prayer that as they triggered this peace chain, it really get a chain reaction @myopera blogs and beyond until we have a peaceful world!
http://my.opera.com/Changing_woman/blog/show.dml/4386032
Donut123: Peace and Reggae
http://my.opera.com/Donut123/blog/2009/09/29/zion-train
zdjęcia pochodzą ze stron internetowych:
http://f2.sfd.pl/file/9/images2006/20061201194446.gif
www.janbury.com.pl/artykuly.php?id=38
http://www.dziennik.pl/foto/article235976/Tak_wygladal_stan_wojenny.html?gallerySeq=1#top
http://d.wiadomosci24.pl/g2/07/00/9b/83888_1229291170_5c5e
http://www.infomuzyka.pl/Muzyka/51,83570,6059226.html?i=0
http://www.olo23.elsat.net.pl/u2/analizy.html
oraz z oficjalnej strony www.U2.com
I am pleased with inviting, I want to join The Peace Chain. Poles want the peace very much. In my country even not a long time ago it was restlessly. In Poland in 1981 r. authorities implemented the martial law, during which many people stayed killed or closed in prisons. The martial law lasted three years. It was a time of the great violence in my country. I remember tanks in the streets of my city. It is terrible feeling, you just cannot know what will happen. The ordinary men fought with the socialist system, and authorities sent tanks against them.13 December 1981 r. in the morning Poles unexpectedly saw the army in the streets.
Such events took place in Poland 1981 - 1983
The ordinary men fought for the freedom then, but great participation in this fight had also a song. Claude wrote that even the song could do a lot .. for The Peace. I want to tell about one of songs which supported us very much in those difficult times. Songs of the band U2 often refers to current events in world. Song under the title "New Year's Day" is devoted to the situation in Poland during the martial law. Words of the song aren't telling directly about events in Poland. Bono didn't relate events, but he handed his emotions over. It is a song about love, however inspired with situation of the ordinary men standing in the face of difficult times. Bono confessed that: "subconsciously I had to think about detaining Lech Wałęsa, about the fact that his wife wasn't allowed to see him. When we recorded this song they announced, that martial law in Poland, will be canceled in the new year. Remarkable.”
Now the song often resounds at concerts. Poles remember the song was written specially for them after implementing the martial law, therefore at the concert in Chorzów in 2005 r. during a concert tour Vertigo, fans prepared unusual surprise. Internauts wrote to each other, and therefore at the concert 80 000 people at the stadium created the huge Polish flag. When the first tacts of the song sounded, suddenly all fans beneath the stage raised red flags and scarves, and white flags on podiums of the stadium. In this way the entire stadium in a flash looked as large white- red flag. This made huge impression on the band. Bono took the jacket off, he put the jacket on again, but the lining fabric was visible now. The jacket had red lining fabric!, and in this way Bono became the part of our flag. In the band’s biography "U2 by U2" we will find his statement: "visiting Poland was the most wonderful moment of the entire tour, when I stood on the stage and I turned to the audience, entire stadium of 80 000 people, was white and red. From the impression I didn’t knew if to sing or not. It was an unusual emotional moment for everyone who could see it ". The song can do really much for the peace and then everyone remember it for a long time. These are the wonderful memories.
The music and other activity of U2 is contributing to the Peace in world and therefore Bono, received the award in Paris "Man of Peace 2008". Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded a prize, including Lech Wałęsa and the ex-president Frederik RSA de Klerk. Remarkable.
Here is the Chain for Peace...
l_ArtMan: "I vote for Peace for the whole World. Let it be. Make love not war."
http://my.opera.com/I_ArtMan/blog/peace-is-possible
Virgilia: Pax et felicitas semper omnibus!
http://my.opera.com/Virgilia/blog/chain
MAJULIE: La chaîne est plus facile à faire que la paix...
http://my.opera.com/MAJULIE/blog/2009/05/10/la-paix-sur-terre
Villain: I don't think you'll like it, but that's what I think.
http://my.opera.com/Villain/blog/2009/05/13/478-chain-for-peace-in-the-world
solzinho: Paz Para A Raça Humana.
http://my.opera.com/solzinho/blog/paz-para-a-ra
yulenka: ... nice idea to find a way to connect all people around the World, this way in honor of Peace.
http://my.opera.com/yulenka/blog/show.dml/3239607
Liu: Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do, ever !!
http://my.opera.com/%20Liu/blog/2009/05/14/beauty-is-around-everywhere
theresainnamibia: People who believe that everone can do something to work for world's peace
http://my.opera.com/TheResa75/blog/2009/05/16/peace-chain
And Theresa hopes to help poor family in Namibia here:
http://my.opera.com/theresainnamibia/blog/2009/05/15/new-sponsorships-needed-neue-paten-gesucht
robertsglyn1: People ...just being at peace and having fun
http://my.opera.com/robertsglyn1/blog/show.dml/3256797
norfrid: As a child I used to read this prayer of St.Francis that my grandfather had in a frame on his bedroom
http://my.opera.com/norfrid/blog/chain-for-peace-in-the-world
Arnekrilu: This blog is mainly about tolerance, and how difficult it is to live "the good life"
http://my.opera.com/Arnekrilu/blog/2009/05/20/tolerance-love-and-peace
noah counte: I know that every stone I cast ripples outward.
http://my.opera.com/noah%20counte/blog/2009/05/25/peace-chain
ellinidata: When my young came home from school this afternoon, and asked "mom are there any new interesting posts on Opera lately?"
http://my.opera.com/ellinidata/blog/2009/05/29/teen-joins-the-peace-chain
norskblu: I can say I am a lucky person, living in a free democratic country
http://my.opera.com/norskblu/blog/2009/07/01/chain-of-peace
jean22: I saw first the word "Peace" I said to myself WOW...
http://my.opera.com/jean22/blog/chain-peace
macmahn: Just the list
http://my.opera.com/macmahn/about/
daxonmacs: Ordinary flowers, extraordinary people.
http://my.opera.com/daxonmacs/blog/2009/09/05/ordinary-flowers-extraordinary-people
PainterWoman: Haven't named the poem yet....maybe A Reason for Peace?
http://my.opera.com/PainterWoman/blog/2009/09/11/peace-chain-continues-2
malina007: Peace and love
http://my.opera.com/malina007/blog/2009/09/16/peace-from-claude-blog
SummerAngel: Visitors Please Click on the Dove
http://my.opera.com/SummerAngel/blog/2009/09/30/come-on-and-join-the-peace-train
Changing_woman: I hope and prayer that as they triggered this peace chain, it really get a chain reaction @myopera blogs and beyond until we have a peaceful world!
http://my.opera.com/Changing_woman/blog/show.dml/4386032
Donut123: Peace and Reggae
http://my.opera.com/Donut123/blog/2009/09/29/zion-train
zdjęcia pochodzą ze stron internetowych:
http://f2.sfd.pl/file/9/images2006/20061201194446.gif
www.janbury.com.pl/artykuly.php?id=38
http://www.dziennik.pl/foto/article235976/Tak_wygladal_stan_wojenny.html?gallerySeq=1#top
http://d.wiadomosci24.pl/g2/07/00/9b/83888_1229291170_5c5e
http://www.infomuzyka.pl/Muzyka/51,83570,6059226.html?i=0
http://www.olo23.elsat.net.pl/u2/analizy.html
oraz z oficjalnej strony www.U2.com
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Simone # 26. July 2009, 07:43
I add your link to my blog.
scott cumming # 26. July 2009, 23:35
i added you on my page for peace.
edaniela # 28. July 2009, 08:46
Claude # 4. August 2009, 11:54
edaniela # 9. August 2009, 09:50
I had high hopes that what I will write would be interesting.
Claude # 10. August 2009, 10:21
edaniela # 11. August 2009, 08:20
http://files.myopera.com/edaniela/blog/IMG_2388.JPG
Claude # 13. August 2009, 23:02
edaniela # 15. August 2009, 09:27
Claude # 15. August 2009, 16:26
edaniela # 15. August 2009, 17:40
Claude # 15. August 2009, 17:46
Claude # 8. September 2009, 11:59
A comment just to tell you that Dax joined us in the Peace chain:
http://my.opera.com/daxonmacs/blog/2009/09/05/ordinary-flowers-extraordinary-people
Claude # 11. September 2009, 18:47
http://my.opera.com/PainterWoman/blog/2009/09/11/peace-chain-continues-2
edaniela # 12. September 2009, 07:09
Claude # 12. September 2009, 08:27
Claude # 15. September 2009, 19:05
http://my.opera.com/malina007/blog/2009/09/15/peace-from-claude-blog