1. Dedicate a tree in your front yard to your adopted MIA and mark it with the wide yellow
ribbon. (If you live in an apartment, dedicate a window or get permission to dedicate a tree
in a local park.) Then get each of your neighbors (or as many of them as you can) to do
likewise.
2. Contact the principal of the local middle or grammar schools (or nurseries or day cares)
and see if they will dedicate a tree on their grounds. Do the same with veteran organizations,
local churches, businesses, unions, scout troops, garden clubs...any where people get together.
3. Contact your local music radio station and request "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" be dedicated to
your MIA and give the date of loss.
4. Cut the 1/4" yellow ribbon into pieces 2 inches long, fold them into lapel ribbons (see
above) like those on the web Ring logo, and secure them with a straight pin. Make as many of
them as you can and carry them with you wherever you go. If you work at a desk or table,
place several in a dish and leave them in view. when people ask what they are for, tell them
and offer them one to wear. Set a goal to put 100 ribbons in lapels by POW/MIA Awareness
day in September.
The rationale here is simple. Sooner or later, the media and the "Inside the Beltway Crowd" are going to start wondering
what all the yellow ribbons are about.
The OperationJustCause Yellow Ribbon campaign is going to be just one of several steps in
creating a national and international awareness of the fact that men were left behind and
that many are still captive. It is the only way we can get the bureaucrats off their duffs.
Please consider contributing a few hours of your time to this effort.
There will be a few brief follow-ups to this message regarding how we will keep track of the
numbers and monitor the success of the campaign.
Thank you all for everything you are doing...
Please feel free to "lift" the graphic and the midi from this page for your own page. All I ask
is that you credit the midi to Tommy Williams III. Tommy graciously created this midi for
the POW/MIA cause.
Thank you Doc, Carolee and Lady Jen for the text used on this page.
