Declaration of Washington, D.C. as a Community of Peace by Mayor Anthony Williams. The presentation was made to the Ethiopian Ambassadors, a children’s group of Ethiopian ancestry. A peace pole was presented at the ceremony to the mayor to be placed in a prominent place in Washington DC.
On September 19, 2010, the entire Children’s Cloth of Many Colors was shown on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate the International Day of Peace. Ambassador John McDonald and Communities of Peace founder Gerry Eitner were speakers for the day.
On August 9th, 2008, at the Global Peace Festival, a number of sections of the Children’s Cloth of Many Colors were shown by children from thirty-four nations. Twenty thousand people were in attendance.
The entire CCMC was shown on the west lawn of the US Capitol on September 13, 2005. and March 25, 2007. Some people say that a “miracle” occurred. See the story here.
Emissary of peace children, accompanied by sections from the Children's Cloth of Many Colors, presented an environmental program to Secretary of State Colin Powell at the State Department to celebrate Earth Day in 2004. They received a special individual tour of the State Department.
Mayor Anthony Williams conducting the Washington Symphony Orchestra, politicians, ambassadors, children from DC and other states, the entire Children’s Cloth of Many Colors, musical stars, and representatives of diplomatic embassies participated in our event, “Today’s Children – Tomorrow’s World.” The event was the culmination of a year’s program of monthly peace forums that we chaired in Washington DC. The event was held on September 11, 2002, on Capitol Hill.
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The Children's Cloth of Many Colors began from a child’s dream at our peace event at the Pentagon on 9/22/2000, where we dedicated a peace pole for the Pentagon Chapel. The event took place in the conference room of the Secretary of the Army. Seventy-five people were in attendance. Army Chaplain Henry Haines gave the invocation for the event, and was the persistent shepherd who made the placement possible. The peace pole stood in the Pentagon Chapel during the attacks of 9/ll.
On July 11, 2001, Brynn Stalvey presented the initial section of the Children’s Cloth of Many Colors to Congressman Dennis Kucinich as he initiated a congressional resolution for a Department of Peace. The section was made by children from Brynn’s third grade at the Bonnie Brae School in Fairfax VA. It hung in the office of Congressman Kucinich for a few years, as a symbol of children’s wishes for a peaceful world.
