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This is the most sweetest thing ever. I'm so happy for you and your son.
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This is the most sweetest thing ever. I'm so happy for you and your son.
TsarinaLisa said:
Lisa, that is simply NOT the truth but that's alright.
Bono spoke to me and his friend who brought him over for nearly five minutes about a project that I am currently involved with for a friend of his.
He openly thanked me in front of the crowd for what I was doing with this project and asked me to do all that I can to continue assisting his friend with this project.
What happened between us is exactly as I stated above - I have no need to embellish.
I am now completely over my patience with the constant onslaught of character assissanation that I am experiencing here and I simply won't stand for it any longer.
I have not put down any body's story and I encourage all of this sh*t to stop.
I will contact the mods and Elvis tomorrow about it because when y'all begin to lie about people, especially those who are with Bono's own friends, then there must be some price to pay.
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According to the video, Bono had no idea who you were or what these crafts were that you were selling, jamila.
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ceallach67 said:Hi all, I don't normally post over here at Interference as you can see by my low post count.
But after what happened to my son in Philly, a met a beautiful soul who asked if I would post this story and these pictures here at Interference. In the chaos of the moment, I didn't get a chance to ask her for her name, but I promised that I would post the story and pics from my son's meeting with Bono. So... if the person who approached me is reading this... this is for you and I am so sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you more. It was crazy and hectic after we came out and I needed to get my little boy in a cab and get him home. It was very long and emotional day for him.
Okay... the story is that my little boy is a patient of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he has Leukemia and his wish was to meet Bono. He is currently in the off therapy stage of his treatment and we are waiting on a cured diagnosis. We have to wait at least another year and a half for that. We still go to monthly treatments for blood counts and overall check ups. But he is off the chemo treatments and he is doing well. He was diagnosed in Oct 2003, two weeks shy of his second Birthday. He took to the song Vertigo when it came out, he listened to the song constantly and it became a place for him that was a happy one. He took to Bono as a sort of source of happiness as well. Brandon took to Bono as I hero, I guess. I don't really know how to explain it, I was and am still amazed at my son and the love he has for Bono. I don't even think I realized how much until the night in Philly when he was granted his wish by the people of the National Constitution Center.
Anyhow... he drew a picture for Bono when his was just 4 that I was able to give to Bono February 2006 after his speech in D.C. Brandon was in remission then.
Enough back story.
As I said, the people at the National Constitution Center were made aware of my little boy's wish to meet Bono and they did everything they could and more to make his wish come true.
I will be forever grateful to them and have begun to send off my letters of thanks to the many who played a part in granting my son's wish.
Before I post the pics, that will speak for themselves, I want to say that I was a little guarded in sharing this moment and these pics because it is my son but, I do feel that it is stories like this one that should be told. I didn't talk to Bono at all, this moment wasn't about me. The only thing I mentioned was the picture that Brandon drew for him. Bono remembered immediately and turned to Brandon and said "Wow... that was you? and then "You beat it! You beat this!" I began to cry then and Bono caught me off guard by pulling me into a hug and holding me. He kissed my forehead and kept his arm around me until the time where he picked up my little boy. I didn't expect that, I kept back and off to the side for most of this meeting and just cried while watching my son have this time with Bono.
My son was so excited when he saw Bono for the first time he was jumping up and down. To my surprise, even in that room of incredible people, the second Bono saw my son, he was all about Brandon. I will never forget the joy on my son's face as I stood back and watched his dream come true. I will never forget the love Bono showed my son.
And... I will never forget all the love everyone had shown my son when we came out of the building. Thank you all for that, thank you for understanding the wish of little boy.
Without further delay here are the pics (btw... I am grateful to the woman from the National Constitution Center who took my camera from me and took all of these beautiful pics. There were some pics taken by photographers from the Center and they took down my name and address to send them to us. They were incredible people and I will always remember what they did for my son)
Kelly,
Thank you for posting your story & pictures. As some have said, it's moments like these....
I cried the first time that JCoster posted it from Zootopia and again when you did. I can't find the words to type express myself clearly, but I wish you & your family nothing but health, happiness and strength. And Brandon couldn't have picked a better role model. Please come back & visit Interference. It's usually a lot of fun. And we have smilies 
And let us know how Brandon is doing 
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Jamila said:Lisa, that is simply NOT the truth but that's alright.
Bono spoke to me and his friend who brought him over for nearly five minutes about a project that I am currently involved with for a friend of his.
He openly thanked me in front of the crowd for what I was doing with this project and asked me to do all that I can to continue assisting his friend with this project.
What happened between us is exactly as I stated above - I have no need to embellish.
I am now completely over my patience with the constant onslaught of character assissanation that I am experiencing here and I simply won't stand for it any longer.
I have not put down any body's story and I encourage all of this sh*t to stop.
I will contact the mods and Elvis tomorrow about it because when y'all begin to lie about people, especially those who are with Bono's own friends, then there must be some price to pay.
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES - LEAVE MINE ALONE !
HAHAHAHA!!!! OMG!!! Assination of charachter!!! You do that every day! Please do contact the mods! I really do not care. I got to say what many have always wanted to say but for some reason let your insanity go on! So , listen y'all........YOU ARE NOT BONO'S FRIEND! BONO'S FRIENDS DO NOT WAIT IN A MEET AND GREET LINE! BONO'S FRIENDS DO NOT BELITTLE PEOPLE, AND LASTLY BONO'S FRIENDS DO NOT BELONG IN A STRAIGHT JACKET!
AS FOR YOUR THREAT TO ME...................I WILL TAKE THAT TO THE MODS AS WELL. I know I spoke the thruth here and did not threaten you as you just did not me.....so in your own words.....there shall be a price to pay for you as well.
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ET said::
was that a threat ??
Yes, it was......I would expect nothing less from this loon.
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ceallach67 -- What a lovely story! Thanks for posting it here.
And yep, we have the best smilies!
And yep, we have the best smilies!
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TsarinaLisa said:
Spoken just like it happened. Jamilia, you did not speak with Bono for 5 minutes, once he got near you next thing eveyrone knew he was being ushered by Brian to his car.
You seem to forget, you were standing at the curb just like everyone else was waiting for Bono to come out, if you are such a good friend why didn't Brian escort you to see him. But, no Brian came over to us.
And what you did with Brandon is uncomprehensible!
I hope I never see you at an event again. How can you possible deny this when a number of people saw and heard what you did?
omg, this thread has turned hysterical.
As far as I could see this meet and greet was just as chaotic as most of them turn out to be, (no more no less).
Maybe if everyone had just followed the guidelines that were set out by Gerry (not sure if he spells with with a J or not), more people would have gotten a chance to meet Bono. As it happened no one in the front row (except Dan) moved to the back once they had had there moment.
Unfortunately, this is what happens at most events where Bono stops to talk. Too many people too little time.
It was very cool to see that little boy and his mother come out after meeting him. You could see the excitement in them.
Hey ET is that you Eden from New Zealand?? You're right, that was a great time....trying to find a cab being wet and in the cold at 1am after the car got towed...good times!
As far as I could see this meet and greet was just as chaotic as most of them turn out to be, (no more no less).
Maybe if everyone had just followed the guidelines that were set out by Gerry (not sure if he spells with with a J or not), more people would have gotten a chance to meet Bono. As it happened no one in the front row (except Dan) moved to the back once they had had there moment.
Unfortunately, this is what happens at most events where Bono stops to talk. Too many people too little time.
It was very cool to see that little boy and his mother come out after meeting him. You could see the excitement in them.
Hey ET is that you Eden from New Zealand?? You're right, that was a great time....trying to find a cab being wet and in the cold at 1am after the car got towed...good times!
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Your car got towed?
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i think Brandon's story is a beautiful one. it would suck if this thread got closed bc of other drama. thanks for sharing the story Kelly!
I think perhaps I need to remind everyone, including any new members, that personal attacks / name calling towards other members is NOT allowed. Threatening other members is also not allowed. Jamila, I'm sure you are aware of our rules since you've been here for quite a while now. I understand you feel you need to defend yourself, however, I think the best thing would be for you to refrain from posting in this thread any further. I do not want to have to close this thread since there are many wonderful posts and experiences here and those people have a right to share them without having to read a bunch of crazy drama.
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I just want to say that the people I met that day were the nicest people. I had a great time hanging out with them all day and night. Its more fun to share the experience with others. 
kellyahern said:Your car got towed?
In New Zealand, not Philly.
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Ah, okay .
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ceallach67
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Thank you everyone again, so very much for your incredible and loving comments and understanding regarding my son and his wish. If it is okay, I’m just going to address the comments/questions made in this thread with one post as a whole.
Yes, I did know the two girls who came from London. They are people from Zootopia who I have known for a couple years now but for the first time was able to talk to face to face. I had looked forward to this event for a long time because I knew I would finally be meeting up with these two wonderful ladies. I also got to meet the incredible and lovely Lisa, who, even though we live so close to each other, we had never successfully made plans to meet before this. She is the sweetest, most generous and incredible woman who was so wonderful with my son. I saw two women who I had already met up with in Boston on a planned trip and our little group all met up early at their hotel in Philly, and we went to lunch at the Hard Rock Café. On Friday, I went back in to Philly and we all took in the sites together. Honestly, that part of trip to Philly is my favorite memory. Meeting up with these incredible ladies that I became close with just in the form of speaking to each other online previously.
It was a joy to see the little groups of people doing the same in line. I loved that group of ladies in the (RED) t-shirts that were standing in the front of the line. You all looked so happy.
The mood was a great one, happy and excitement, everyone talking and getting along. A special thank you to those people around us who were so kind and loving to my little boy. I had serious reservations about putting him through this day. It was an emotional roller coaster kind of day. My son is just 5 and I debated even up until the day before whether or not I was going to come to Philly. If it wasn’t for him and the promise of his wish being granted by the folks at the National Constitution Center, I wouldn’t have come. Still it was a gamble, nothing concrete could be promised, as we were told, that while they would do everything in their power to make Brandon’s hope and wish a reality, they could not guarantee the availability of Bono in regards to his schedule. I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to put my son through that gamble or deal with him being let down should it be that he his wish couldn’t be granted. It is for that reason that I didn’t even mention any of it to him until that day. Rather than put him through that, I would have been just as happy watching it with him snuggling on the couch in my living room and would have met up with my friends the next day to do the site seeing thing. The day before the event I even mentioned this to my son but he cried and insisted that he wanted to go to see Bono get his medal and begged me that I take him trying to assure me that he would be fine waiting, that he would bring his cards, his game boy, juice boxes and snacks and he would be fine. Of course, as his mother, I still had fear, but also as his mother I just couldn’t deny my son this.
Just to say, I was made aware of what a certain person had said about my son and his meeting Bono. At first I was very hurt, not for myself, but for him. And then I was angry. And then finally, I considered the source and realized it doesn’t matter. The truth is the truth. No matter how you try to offer your version of it, no matter what you want to believe, it doesn’t erase what is. No words can erase the truth. It will always shine through and be revealed. I hold that truth every night when I tuck him in and silently pray to God for his healing and in thanks that we were one of the blessed to have gotten through this ordeal. Not everyone is as fortunate. I have seen the sad side of this illness with my own two eyes and felt the loss deeply of every child, cried for every mother who lost their child to this. My son is all the truth I need and all that matters to me. So eventually that hurt and anger turned into a feeling of pity for a person who could be jealous and make despicable comments about a 5- year old boy with Cancer who was granted his wish. There is a sadness in that. A sadness in the fact that a person could harbor such feelings like that toward an innocent child because that child may have happened to be in a place they wanted to be. I pray for anyone who is that ill of mind and heart. I will not validate those disgusting comments by offering any sort of explanation but I will say this much; My son had a wish, a wish that was expressed to the staff of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Voorhees and Make a Wish Foundation. Let me just offer this piece of sense up for consideration: Don’t you think these organizations ask these children what their wishes are? Why do you think that is? They do that so that they can be sure that it is indeed the child’s true wish. And one more point for consideration: Do you not think Bono’s people asked Brandon that day what his wish was?
Lastly: meeting Bono is not that important to everyone. It certainly isn’t to me. I would much rather have spent that day watching from the comfort of my own home. A day like that one is tiring and hard on a five year old. Meeting Bono is a memory my son will now always have, but it does not and it will not ever be able to make up for what he had to go through for three and half years of fighting cancer and will have to face for the rest of his life. It was wonderful and a blessing as his mother to watch him have his wish come true, to watch this man who my son adores take such care with him and spend a few moments reaching out to my child with love in the way he did. But, as beautiful as that experience that one night was for me as a mother to see, it will not and will never make up for the many nights of fear, worry and the pain of watching my son fight cancer. Furthermore, if it were possible and the choice could be offered that, that moment in Philly could be “given back” in exchange for my son be granted a normal life free of ever having cancer, it’s a trade I would gladly and eagerly make in a heartbeat.
This is the last I will say on this matter. I offer my apologies for subjecting everyone in this thread to this type of drama. I’m saddened and sorry that it even had to take place. I am ever moved and touched by the out-pouring of love that has been shown here and offered to myself and my son.
May God bless you all.
Yes, I did know the two girls who came from London. They are people from Zootopia who I have known for a couple years now but for the first time was able to talk to face to face. I had looked forward to this event for a long time because I knew I would finally be meeting up with these two wonderful ladies. I also got to meet the incredible and lovely Lisa, who, even though we live so close to each other, we had never successfully made plans to meet before this. She is the sweetest, most generous and incredible woman who was so wonderful with my son. I saw two women who I had already met up with in Boston on a planned trip and our little group all met up early at their hotel in Philly, and we went to lunch at the Hard Rock Café. On Friday, I went back in to Philly and we all took in the sites together. Honestly, that part of trip to Philly is my favorite memory. Meeting up with these incredible ladies that I became close with just in the form of speaking to each other online previously.
It was a joy to see the little groups of people doing the same in line. I loved that group of ladies in the (RED) t-shirts that were standing in the front of the line. You all looked so happy.
The mood was a great one, happy and excitement, everyone talking and getting along. A special thank you to those people around us who were so kind and loving to my little boy. I had serious reservations about putting him through this day. It was an emotional roller coaster kind of day. My son is just 5 and I debated even up until the day before whether or not I was going to come to Philly. If it wasn’t for him and the promise of his wish being granted by the folks at the National Constitution Center, I wouldn’t have come. Still it was a gamble, nothing concrete could be promised, as we were told, that while they would do everything in their power to make Brandon’s hope and wish a reality, they could not guarantee the availability of Bono in regards to his schedule. I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to put my son through that gamble or deal with him being let down should it be that he his wish couldn’t be granted. It is for that reason that I didn’t even mention any of it to him until that day. Rather than put him through that, I would have been just as happy watching it with him snuggling on the couch in my living room and would have met up with my friends the next day to do the site seeing thing. The day before the event I even mentioned this to my son but he cried and insisted that he wanted to go to see Bono get his medal and begged me that I take him trying to assure me that he would be fine waiting, that he would bring his cards, his game boy, juice boxes and snacks and he would be fine. Of course, as his mother, I still had fear, but also as his mother I just couldn’t deny my son this.
Just to say, I was made aware of what a certain person had said about my son and his meeting Bono. At first I was very hurt, not for myself, but for him. And then I was angry. And then finally, I considered the source and realized it doesn’t matter. The truth is the truth. No matter how you try to offer your version of it, no matter what you want to believe, it doesn’t erase what is. No words can erase the truth. It will always shine through and be revealed. I hold that truth every night when I tuck him in and silently pray to God for his healing and in thanks that we were one of the blessed to have gotten through this ordeal. Not everyone is as fortunate. I have seen the sad side of this illness with my own two eyes and felt the loss deeply of every child, cried for every mother who lost their child to this. My son is all the truth I need and all that matters to me. So eventually that hurt and anger turned into a feeling of pity for a person who could be jealous and make despicable comments about a 5- year old boy with Cancer who was granted his wish. There is a sadness in that. A sadness in the fact that a person could harbor such feelings like that toward an innocent child because that child may have happened to be in a place they wanted to be. I pray for anyone who is that ill of mind and heart. I will not validate those disgusting comments by offering any sort of explanation but I will say this much; My son had a wish, a wish that was expressed to the staff of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Voorhees and Make a Wish Foundation. Let me just offer this piece of sense up for consideration: Don’t you think these organizations ask these children what their wishes are? Why do you think that is? They do that so that they can be sure that it is indeed the child’s true wish. And one more point for consideration: Do you not think Bono’s people asked Brandon that day what his wish was?
Lastly: meeting Bono is not that important to everyone. It certainly isn’t to me. I would much rather have spent that day watching from the comfort of my own home. A day like that one is tiring and hard on a five year old. Meeting Bono is a memory my son will now always have, but it does not and it will not ever be able to make up for what he had to go through for three and half years of fighting cancer and will have to face for the rest of his life. It was wonderful and a blessing as his mother to watch him have his wish come true, to watch this man who my son adores take such care with him and spend a few moments reaching out to my child with love in the way he did. But, as beautiful as that experience that one night was for me as a mother to see, it will not and will never make up for the many nights of fear, worry and the pain of watching my son fight cancer. Furthermore, if it were possible and the choice could be offered that, that moment in Philly could be “given back” in exchange for my son be granted a normal life free of ever having cancer, it’s a trade I would gladly and eagerly make in a heartbeat.
This is the last I will say on this matter. I offer my apologies for subjecting everyone in this thread to this type of drama. I’m saddened and sorry that it even had to take place. I am ever moved and touched by the out-pouring of love that has been shown here and offered to myself and my son.
May God bless you all.
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^ you too, lovely lady.
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what are there names on the U2.com forum? I really want to know if she met Bono or not.
Did Brandon ever see a U2 concert before?
Did Brandon ever see a U2 concert before?
ceallach67
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Oh, I do love these smilies.
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((((((((((Kelly))))))))))
Also, to those here, who were there, I talked to a few but names were never exchanged. I remember how we all were when we watched brandon go in and then his excitement when he came out! JCOSTER.......I know I spoke with you from looking at your pic!
I will try to also help get the thread back on track by posting a few pictures here that I took that night.........
Also, to those here, who were there, I talked to a few but names were never exchanged. I remember how we all were when we watched brandon go in and then his excitement when he came out! JCOSTER.......I know I spoke with you from looking at your pic!
I will try to also help get the thread back on track by posting a few pictures here that I took that night.........
Oh, ceallach67, that was beautiful. I teared up reading that. 
I'm glad that Brandon got to meet Bono, he seems like such a sweetheart. Brandon, not Bono...well, Bono too...oh, you know what I mean. Good luck with everything.
I'm glad that Brandon got to meet Bono, he seems like such a sweetheart. Brandon, not Bono...well, Bono too...oh, you know what I mean. Good luck with everything. TsarinaLisa
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TsarinaLisa said:
hmm..what was your name? Not sure, if I talked to you but probaby did.
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TsarinaLisa said:
I was sitting near Michelle, would you mind passing my email onto her?
We all left so quickly after Bono left, I didn't think to get hers.
pattip2000@hotmail.com
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EdgeIsTooSexy said:
Why aren't you in school young lady?
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TsarinaLisa said:((((((((((Kelly))))))))))
Also, to those here, who were there, I talked to a few but names were never exchanged. I remember how we all were when we watched brandon go in and then his excitement when he came out! JCOSTER.......I know I spoke with you from looking at your pic!
I will try to also help get the thread back on track by posting a few pictures here that I took that night.........
pm me with a picture or something so I can remember.
