After the death of Jimmy Carter, peanuts are being brought to the makeshift memorial: the reason is revealed

In the United States, citizens honor the memory of the 39th President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, December 29, at the age of 100. Near the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia, an improvised memorial was created from a sign, where people began to bring flowers immediately after the tragic news. The fact that people take peanuts with them and leave them there as a sign of remembrance was particularly noteworthy.

In addition to nuts, peanut butter and peaches also appeared at the site of the improvised memorial. According to People magazine, the appearance of the summer fruit was a tribute to Georgia's most iconic export. The nuts, on the other hand, point to the 39th president's childhood.

Jimmy Carter was born into a family of peanut farmers. He spent much of his youth on the Plains peanut farm owned by his family. Carter used the money he earned from the farm to launch his political career.

After his father's death, Carter took over the family business and ran the farm on his own. It took him many years to get the company back on its feet and generate a stable net profit. Therefore, peanuts became a symbol of Jimmy Carter's simple, folk-like nature, which he retained as president.

Before entering politics, he studied at the Naval Academy and worked as an engineer, and then became governor of Georgia before his first term as commander-in-chief. His career culminated with his election as President of the United States in January 1977. In October 2024, he became the first head of state to live to be 100 years old.

Georgia was Jimmy Carter's home state throughout his life. The 39th President of the United States was born there and died there on December 29. The politician's heart stopped in his home in Plains. The cause of Jimmy Carter's death is still unknown, but back in February 2023, it was reported that the politician had decided to stop treatment for an aggressive form of melanoma, a skin cancer with metastases to the liver and brain. After a series of hospitalizations, it was decided that the politician would spend the rest of his life at home under medical supervision.

Earlier, OBOZ.UA wrote about the loud statements about Ukraine and the war made by Jimmy Carter. On February 24, 2022, the politician sharply condemned the full-scale war unleashed by Russia and called for help to Ukrainians "in their right to peace, security and self-determination."

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