Garden State Discovery Museum Peace Pole - Cherry Hill, NJ
N 39° 54.732 W 074° 57.965
18S E 502898 N 4418012
There is a 4-language peace pole in the butterfly garden to the right of this Cherry Hill attraction.
Waymark Code: WMHVZ4
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 08/17/2013
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There are four languages, three of which I know and the fourth, took some doing to decipher. It seems the Japanese alphabet is not like outs but rather made up of symbols that when alone have meaning to simple concepts or ideas but when put together form larger concepts or words. The English simply read May Peace Prevail On Earth. The Spanish read Que La Paz Prevalezca En La Tierra which translates to May Peace Prevail On Earth. The Hebrew, which I speak read which of course means Let There be Peace on Earth or Let it be Peace on Earth, a little more John Lennonish. Finally, the Japanese also translated to something similar to the other three sides. Far as I could tell was ??? means Citizen of the World and ?? means peace. Another symbol, ?, translates to sphere which probably is a reference to Earth. Whatever, it is a difficult language. Bottom line is the thing is white, plastic and stuck in the ground behind a fence which you are supposed to enter in and visit.