I hope that you are innocent because I hope Maddie is still alive and well but you make me doubt this.

How can you leave your other children to travel the world, for what ever good causes, they are presious too.

I know Maddie trusted and loved you.

I wish you all the best but I mostly wish Maddie was with you

It is very sad that these cases happen, and I am extremely saddened that Madeliene has not been found. What is right or wrongly done doesn’t count. The fact is, there is another missing child out there, just 3 years old , who like Ben Needham may never be found. However, like all missing children, Madeliene should still be rightly remembered. My little girl is the same age as Maddy, and everytime I look at her, I think of Maddy and what she must be going through. I wander wether she is dead or alive, and how I would feel if it was mine.

YES, the parents where wrong for leaving the children in on their own. But fact is, it WAS not maddys fault. Another point is, I think it is really sad how the media get their oars in on these stories, and just because they take a while to solve or never get solved they back out. How do they expect us to solve these cases, when they just let them fade away?

It may sound abit dramatic, but have the police even botthered to check war torn areas such as iraq, and oil battling areas such as Nigeria? After all another 3 yr old was kidnapped and taken to Nigeria, and the people who have her are threating to kill her.

If you ask me, the world does not do enough for missing children.

” instead of calling the McCanns names on a forum”

Perhaps, Joanne, as you work on your good causes, to do them better, you should sign up for a reading course of some sort….

Exercise your brain, as you advise others..I didn’t and never have called the McCanns names…I was responding to Jan and Pixie Girl, stating my opinion.

Anorak, Suzanne, Anonymous and Jane, you made great sense.

The McCanns are highly deserving of wearing the ribbon - it’s a small yellow ribbon for gods sake that has become symbolic as it has gathered momentum!

If you are a bit disgruntled by this and feel the military guys are more deserving, then instead of calling the McCanns names on a forum, go and do something positive - set up your own foundation, raise awareness, pick a colour and pass around your ribbons.

The McCanns have worked tirelessly to maintain the publicity campaign.

What good cause do you work tirelessly at?

soldiers fighting in the war chose to serve their country and are well paid for it.

Well paid???

As a mom of a son in the military reserves I beg to differ….

Percentage of married Guard members and reservists who report a loss of income over civilian jobs, as of May 2004: 55%

Percentage of married Guard members and reservists who report a decrease in pay of $1,000 a month or more, as of May 2004: 49%

Percentage of married Guard members and reservists who report a decrease in pay of $30,000 a year or more, as of May 2004: 15%

Percentage of National Guard members and reservists who’ve turned to military family support organizations for assistance, as of May 2004: 18%

Number of military families who’ve contacted USA Cares for emergency assistance since the war in Iraq began: 959

Amount of assistance arranged by USA Cares for military families since the war in Iraq began: $350,514

Those figures have risen substantially in the past 3 years.

Children taken from single parents in uniform when they are mobilized

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18506417/

Jan Says:

No need to wear a ribbon for anyone in a war.

Soldiers serve and die to protect all of us.

As the mom of a military reservist son, I strongly beg to differ with
the opinions cited and believe yellow ribbons for the military are
much more deserved than that for the McCanns.

No need to wear a ribbon for anyone in a war. Soldiers know that they may die when they enlist. They’ve volunteered for that. Madeleine didn’t volunteer to be abducted and she wouldn’t have understood it if she did.

Elizabeth Smart was found 1 year after she was abducted from her bedroom in the US because her parents kept her face in the media…. DON’T STOP!!!!!

400 hundred children a week go missing, its the so called cynics who point this out, the ones who are pillioried for not gushing ‘care and concern’ over Madeleine.

Keep it balanced , as she may be returned to her family, (and lets be blunt about this, I hope they keep an eye on her this time) all this furore will die down, the yellow ribbons etc be thrown away, and every week 400 children will go missing, and not a word said.

Unless you are all closely related to the McCanns, why the obsession with just one child ?

It serves as a reminder. When on holiday, if a person sees someone else wearing a yellow ribbon it wil remind them of Madeleine and perhaps remind them to have a little look around them at the children that they see, wherever they are the world over.

Perhaps it will remind a family to pull their children a little closer, or keep a closer eye and prevent further abduction.

Perhaps it will remind anyone who sees it that somewhere in the world a child is suffering. Not necessarily Madeleine, any child. It may prompt them to donate their 50p to a childrens charity instead of text voting some fat cow out of big brother.

There are good reasons for wearing the ribbon. Exercise your brain a little.