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• Why V-sign is repesent Peace?

  Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:35PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  "WHY" - that word i'm always asking myself! haha...not that serious...haha.. just always want to know sth low-b jar ma haha! 
  
  This time i'm wondering the "v-sign"  What does the "V" mean? Why they use "V" not "P"? Why "v-sign" is peace sign? Why that sign also mean victory?  Why that  sign so popular? After thinking for a while, i go search for "v-sign"  and i copy from the web as below :
  
  The "V-sign", also called the "peace sign" and the "victory sign," is a hand gesture with the index and middle fingers open and all others closed, facing the viewer. Originally strictly a sign for victory, it developed into a peace sign during protests against the Vietnam War (and subsequent anti-war protests) and by the counterculture as a sign of peace. Because the hippies of the day often flashed this sign (palm out) while vocalizing "Peace", it became popularly known through association as the peace sign. Originally, however, its symbolic meaning was love; signing "love" and saying "peace" was a hippie anthem and mutual greeting.
  John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono later made "Peace and love" an ongoing theme in their relationship and public personae, even conducting a public "bed-in" (a parallel construction to a favorite hippie theme event during the 60s and early 70s, the "love-in") in Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, where they refused to leave their hotel bed.
  
  
  
  PEACE
  

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