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...Some people think of ‘hello’ as just a word of greeting, but it can be much more,” Colin Powell, then the highest-ranking American military officer, wrote in a 1992 letter to McCormack. “It serves as a door through which to gain access to greater understanding among peoples and nations as we continue the quest for world peace,” Powell added...
According to the McCormack brothers, 31 Nobel Peace Prize winners have recognized the holiday, including Mother Teresa and Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Every day the people in the whole world are wishing each other everything best in different languages,” Gorbachev wrote in a 1994 letter to McCormack. “This is a symbolic thing. It expresses the essence of human life,” the former Soviet leader added...
...McCormack, now a novelist and screenwriter living in Los Angeles, can greet people in 65 different languages, but knowledge of foreign languages is not necessary to the casual observer of the holiday...
...Right now, maybe more than ever, [World Hello Day] is applicable to what’s going on in the world,” said McCormack. “It’s so simple but it’s something that’s caught...