What's REALLY Going ON Magazine Volume 1 - Issue #2 | Page 28

Written by Sandra Mazur © Founder "MJJ Memorial Munich ~ Heal the Children e.V." Association

https://www.facebook.com/notes/sandra-mazur/the-story-behind-the-mjj-memorial-in-munich-the-way-michael-touched-my

H

ow it all began...

with me throughout my entire life, even if only from the
radio, because I did not have a single CD of Michael
until then. Do you know that feeling? You know so
many of his songs, you’ve seen him on TV so often, but
you don’t actually know the person. Who was Michael?
What moved him? What made him laugh and what
made him cry? Why has he been treated so unfairly by
the media and why did all of this happen? Primarily
HOW could something like this happen? All those questions bothered me day and night, I didn’t get them out
of my head. Michael did not
get out of my head and so I
started to read. I bought oodles of books, watched hundreds of YouTube videos,
browsed the fan bulletin
boards, in order only to get to
know him better.

Because I brought the petition
for the preservation of the memorial
into being on December 30th in 2009
and because since then, I’ve been in
close touch with some of the monument-fairies in Munich, I have been asked if I was willing to write something about the genesis and history of
the memorial. I want to thank Martina Kainz (1st book:
“Wings for an angel”/ 2nd book: “King of Hope”) for her
trust and I’d like to tell you the story of the monument
and also my personal Michael-story, so you can get to
know me a little better and so that you will understand
what encouraged me to advocate this memorial in Munich.

I

t all started with a poster and candles on the
evening of June 25th 2009. That’s what I know
from the reports of the monument-fairies and from forums, because I am not from Munich and got to know
about the memorial there several months later.

Th

e more I was learning
about Michael, the
more I fell in love with this
wonderful, warm-hearted person, who was over all yearning for an upright and honest
love in his life and for a childhood, that he was never given
to live. However, along with
this love also came an endless sorrow, disappointment
and a frantic anger. Disappointment because they did not want to listen to Michael’s
message and that a person was put away because of
the money. I am angry because of a society formed by
egoism, cynicism, cold-heartedness, greed for money
and the striving for might, so much that it is on its best
way to loose its humanity. Is this the society our children are supposed to be raised in? All of this made me
become deeply desperate.

I

will never forget June 25th 2009. This day will for
all time be burnt into my memory. The news about
Michael’s passing came from the radio and was so surreal to me. I turned the tv on immediately, in order to
investigate what the absurd news were really about.
What happened to me next has changed my life in
large part forever. It’s been the day when the world
stopped turning for me. It’s been like someone pulled
the rug out from under my feet. There was only one
thought inside of my head: “This cannot be true. This
person is not dying, Michael Jackson is not dying, he’s
still there always…” I never thought this incident could
knock me off my socks.

M

ichael was always there, he’s been a part of my
youth, I grew up with him. His music went along
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