What's REALLY Going ON Magazine Volume 1 - Issue #2 | Page 31

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

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or the first obit, on June 25th
2010, hundreds of fans met at
the memorial to remember Michael. I was in Munich on this
weekend too. I took the day off,
because I would not have been
able to work, I would have been to
emotional on that day and in my
thoughts only with Michael. I was
happy to be in Munich. This was
the place where I wanted to be on
that day. Here, I could feel Mike,
here I could be close to him. My
heart was filled with love for him. It
was a beautiful day, if you can put
it this way due to the circumstances of our meeting. Wonderful conversations took place, we cried and
we laughed and Michael was always in our hearts. The girls experienced the biggest backlash in
September 2010. It was at the Bavarian Oktoberfest. You cannot tell
if it’s been vandalism or just drunk
people. Anyway, somebody posted
a picture on the morning of September 29th and cried for help at
the bulletin board. It was a horrible
picture of destruction and tears
filled my eyes right away. How
could people just do something like
that? The entire monument lay
waste. Not only one of its sides, or
two…no, the entire memorial. Posters had been ripped off on all
sides; everything has been swept
down wilful from the stairs. As if
had been stepped on. It’s been a
nightmare for everyone. I immediately wanted to get into the car, in
order to help the girls with the reconstruction. But 5 hours of driving
is much too far. So all I could do
was to sit and wait for the relieving
call of Gabi. The helplessness
made me go almost insane. Then
at some point, Gabi finally called
and everything was fine again. The
girls tried to save what could be

saved. Many of the angels and pictures broke unfortunately. But, we
wouldn’t be the fans of Michael
Jackson, if we’d given up then.
Just one appeal at the bulletin
boards – and many of us sent new
pictures, posters, lanterns etc. …
So, after a short time, the memorial
shone resplendent in its old brilliance. As long as the city does not
keep us from preserving, our will to
do so is unbroken.

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ecause of the homepage, the
petition and the associated
Facebook page, the “Memorial in
honor of Michael Jackson in Munich/Germany” became known
very quickly. For the first obit, a
picture of it has even been published in the Washington Post. In
many newscasts and TV reports
the memorial of Munich has been
mentioned and pictures have been
shown. There have also been interview request by radio and TVstations.
Many have been asking, why I’m
doing all of this or why the fairies
keep doing it. They tell us that we
don’t even get something in return
and that we are not even from Munich. Why do I step up for a memorial in Munich? I can tell everybody,
we receive so much more therefore. Michael has enriched our
lives with so many things. That’s
why we want to give back something in return. He has deserved it
so much to be honored. It often
makes me so sick and sad, when
you see the documentaries on TV,
where Michael is being displayed
as an unworldly, abnormal, eccentric artist. Who’s looking at Michael
with their hearts, who has tried to
see the person beyond the artist
( what admittedly isn’t always that
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easy) knows, that Michael is much
more normal than many of our fellow men, who surround us daily.

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unich as a city is dear to
my heart, because Michael
loved this city and also I associate
Michael with Munich. He visited
Munich 13 times all together,
among them a two-week holiday
with his family. It is not important to
me to live right next to ѡ