The Peace Sign, one of the most widely known symbols in the world, was first designed and drawn on home-made banners and badges in London, England on February 21, 1958, when CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) was launched at a public meeting but has since been apropriated by scores of different protest movements, from hippies in 1960s America and to the rest of the world, it is known more broadly as the peace symbol.
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Sometimes peace is not always a good idea. Want to become enslaved by a more aggressive nation or ideology? Stop defending yourself. Then you would have no peace for sure.
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Look up Nero's Cross or Broken Cross. Odd how the meaning of some symbols change over time, such as the peace sign or the swastika.
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The sign is the combination of the semaphore letters "N" & "D", for nuclear disarmament.
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Or as the bent-nose hardhats used to call it, "THE FOOTPRINT OF THE AMERICAN CHICKEN!" They'd yell, too. Just like that.
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Dang. And I thought it was all about a Mercedes advertisment scheme...
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