Peace Pole Dedication Ceremony at Aims Community College.
This dedication ceremony is one of the physical and permanent ways that our club can honor the goal of Peace Through Service. Following the Four Way Test in your family, your business and in your relationships throughout the community is the invisible and best way to spread Peace.
History of the Peace Pole: By Karoline Woodruff
A Peace Pole is a monument that displays the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth," usually in a different language on each side. The message is referred to as a peace prayer but is not specific to any religion, rather universal to all. The Peace Pole Project was started in Japan in 1955 by Masahisa Goi, who dedicated his life to spreading the message of peace, in response to the bombings on Hiroshima.
Sine then, more than 200,000 poles have been placed around the world, in over 180 countries on all continents to promote a Culture of Peace.
Peace-Lovers of all faiths have been involved in Peace Pole dedications, including the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Jimmy Carter, and Coretta Scott King, as well as presidents, mayors, and citizens around the world.
They are in simple places, such as gardens, schools, churches, mosques and synagogues, and extraordinary ones, such as at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, Mount Everest and the Headquarters of the United Nations. They are promoting healing of conflict in places like the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the border between Israel and Jordan and Ground Zero in New York.
By planting a Peace Pole in our community, we are linking with people all over the world who have done so in the same spirit of peace.