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~
COPS is asking for your support to help pass Jessica's Law, the toughest sex offender law in the nation.
Jessica's Law is named in memory of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was taken from her home in Homosassa, Florida, on February 23, 2005, and found brutally murdered three weeks later. A registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history and outstanding warrants for probation violations confessed to abducting, raping, and burying Jessica alive only 150 yards from her home.
With your help we can protect our children from dangerous sexual predators. Please sign the petition today.
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.
