Tie a Yellow Ribbon for Madeline....

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Would you tie a yellow ribbon round a tree/bush in your front garden. Somewhere were it's noticed. (Maybe the door knocker of your front door.)

I do hope that Madeline is found safe and sound, and soon.

No, I wouldn't. My retention of sanity allows me to see this tragedy in perspective.

what MrM said.

no unless i knew her family or lived in her home town.

No.

I hate it that private grief is so often something that the public wallows in these days. I feel terribly sad about her disappearance, and my heart goes out to her parents, but this is their tragedy and their grief, no-one else's.

no.

interesting perspective on all this

No way.
It won't help them find her - simple as that.

Sorry but no I wouldn't either.

Wannabe that's a really interesting article. I agree that wearing yellow and tying yellow ribbons etc does nothing to help, it just increases the fear and anxiety

Nope. Like the others have said, its not about the public wallowing in sorrow, its the parents' own tragedy/grief and not really for us to cling on to.
Also the yellow ribbon thing wont help to find her.
Perhaps we should be thinking of ways to stop child abuse within our own areas rather than magnifying this particular missing child problem. And also to focus on all the other children snatched/missing around the world who dont even receive a hundreth of the media attention that poor Maddy is receiving.

hundredth

Her parents and family have publically stated that they feel very supported and comforted by all these gestures however. I do think that this aspect is deserving of consideration.

it wouldnt help find her though. just would turn the whole thing into a national experience.

i don't have any right to grieve and hope for her.

in the same way, i don't wear a poppy for rememberance day as the only person i know in the war was on the "other side. "

Its a tough one.
Both Kate and Gerry McCann have told press that they are grateful for all the support they have recieved from the public and wish it to continue.
If people stopped printing off these posters (which originally were intended to be given to travellers at airports) and they stopped tying yellow ribbons and stopped talking, the subject of Madeleines disappearance would fade away and this isnt what the family wants.

They want people to do these things as its keeping it in the public eye. It makes a bloody change for the likes of The Sun to have something like this on their front page rather than some disgraced celeb thats falling out of some nightclub somewhere. Who gives a toss?

Tony Orlando and Dawn. Circa 1973.

MrM?

No what would it achieve other than perhaps for people to think what a nice person she is tying a yeelow ribbon around a tree, although actually they would probably think nothing of the sort.

chocolateface - MrM is referring to the song, although the tradition goes back a bit further than that (American Civil War I think).

"Perhaps we should be thinking of ways to stop child abuse within our own areas rather than magnifying this particular missing child problem."

I agree I live in a town where at leaston child every year dies of starvation through neglect. Has that ever been on the front page of the sun? No because I come from a shitty grim town up north.

Do people really believe that this is about Madeleine? Of course it isn?t. It?s about the sun, or whichever paper it is saying ?because of our campaign, a nation has shared in the grief of a child it didn?t even know?. Have the family requested that people wear yellow for Madeleine? Not to my knowledge they haven?t. I think they?ve requested that Madeleine stay in the news as long as possible, and by that I think they meant putting up posters etc, and I?m all for that, but when the paper in question prints tomorrow, will they show the 99% of streets where there are no or only a few ribbons? Nope they will show pictures of the street where ?maddy? grew up which will be full of ribbons.

And I think sadly that tomorrow, or next week, or next month, the sun will have a new story to cover, regardless of whether Madeleine is found.

The artistes, and approx. year when "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree" was in the charts.

i feel so sorry for the parents, we almost lost our dd1 when she was 3 days old, she'd been born healthy but because of a heart condition she almost died and that was an awful time in our life. we've been with people that have lost children but nothing is done for them. everyday children are suffering from one thing or another but what is said or done for them? it's horrible what has happened but this world can be cruel. i can't believe the amount of award money being offered now as well, surely they could use it to get more police out there to look for her if people want to put money towards getting madeleine back home or put it towards preventing this from happening again.

Well WannaBe, Maddie's mum was quite clearly WEARING yellow yesterday and filmed for the news attaching a ribbon the the rest of them that had already been placed, next to Maddie's picture on the railings. And everything was decked out in yellow for Maddie's birthday church service. I guess that is what has encouraged the "awareness" campaign! Did you even see the news?? You are not obliged to watch it.. but seeing as you feel strongly enough to speak out against the yellow ribbons, I would have thought you would have been basing your comments on something!