The Phone Call
How many minutes are there in a moment? Too many!
Just ask any parent, or friend of someone who is missing. They'll tell
you that a moment will contain a lifetime of horrible thoughts
and visions all neatly wrapped up in a tortuous nightmare
of never ending infinite seconds that seem to drag on forever.
Waiting on that ONE phone call. That single phone call that
takes the weight of the world off their shoulders and offers them
HOPE once again
HOPE in a brighter tomorrow that will never again be filled with the
heart ripping, gut wrenching, dark eternity that each parent
or friend exist in while waiting for that one phone call.
Below are links to pages upon pages that contain MISSING CHILDREN
and adults. PLEASE take a moment and look through them.
For if there's even a CHANCE that you might recognize one of them,
you will be part of the HOPE that all parents and friends of the missing
children and adults long for!
Take a moment. PLEASE. And help someone to receive their own
PHONE CALL OF HOPE
~littlebird~
The Origin of the Amber Plan
The AMBER Plan was created in 1996 as a powerful legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, a bright little girl who was kidnapped and brutally murdered while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. The tragedy shocked and outraged the entire community. Residents contacted radio stations in the Dallas area and suggested they broadcast special “alerts” over the airwaves so that they could help prevent such incidents in the future.
In response to the community’s concern for the safety of local children, the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers teamed up with local law-enforcement agencies in northern Texas and developed this innovative early warning system to help find abducted children. Statistics show that, when abducted, a child’s greatest enemy is time.
In April, 2003, President Bush signed the Amber Alert legislation making it a national program. A full year has passed since the Amber Alert law was enacted. While the Amber Alert system is now mandated across the country, some states are still trying to implement the procedures necessary in bringing the alerts to the public. Hampered by outdated Emergency Broadcast guidelines and different activation criteria in each state, the system needs a fair amount of fine-tuning to be optimally effective. Code Amber is on the cutting edge with the technology helping to make that a reality.
Lights of Love
Can you see our candles
Burning in the night?
Lights of Love we send you
Rays of purest white.
Children we remember
Though missing from our sight
In honor and remembrance
We light candles in the night.
All across the big blue skies
Spinning out in space
Can you see the candles burning
From this human place?
Oh, Angels gone before us
Who taught us perfect love
Today the world lights candles
That you may see from above.
Today the globe is lit by love
Of those who know great sorrow,
But as we remember our yesterdays
Let's light a candle for tomorrow.
We will not forget,
And every year in May
On Earth we will light candles
As we Remember Our Children.
In our thoughts,
In our hearts,
In our Lights of Love.
