Amber Alerts on your Cell

An AMBER Alert is a Child abduction alert system, issued to the general public by various media outlets in Canada and in the United States, when police confirm that a child has been abducted. AMBER is the backronym for "America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response", and was named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996.

You may have seen the electronic boards on your drive into work, or heard your favorite radio broadcast interrupted with one... but the fact is that since introduced, AMBER alerts have recovered 420 abducted children. In their first month, California sent 13 amber alerts and recovered 12 children. The last turned out to be a misunderstanding rather than an abduction.

The Wireless Amber Alert system is another way to get the word out to recover our children. Please sign yourself up. They will only send you SMS Text messages during an AMBER alert, not for marketing or any sort of distribution. You can sign up at www.WirelessAmberAlerts.org. Please copy the link to this page ( http://jamie2eric.blogspot.com/2008/09/amber-alerts-on-your-cell.html )and send it to friends/family through email. Our children need us!