National Missing Children's Day 2020

One of the continuing human tragedies of our existence is the propensity for child abduction whereby an individual captures and sequesters the child of another for various nefarious purposes and ends.

These tragedies play out on various local, state, national, and international stages all too often with profoundly cataclysmic consequences for those victims and their families.

Sometimes, justice prevails and lives are saved. Other times justice prevails but posthumously for the victim. Still other times the case goes cold and there is no justice for anyone.

Today is National Missing Children's Day. It has been observed since 1983 when it was proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan. Later in 2001 International Missing Children's Day arrived on the lame and oh so typically late global stage.

Back in the day there were faces on milk cartons captioned "Have you seen this child?" The evolution of the mechanics of of child abduction notifications is now pretty much the purview of social media. Then there are those of us who never go there ...
Those headlines which permeate the news all over are sometimes overshadowed by other current events. Regardless that taint of perversion and criminality remain the problem of the victims and their families. Sometimes the long arms of the law fall far too short.

I try to protect children from the monsters which exist in our midst. The abductors of children are individuals who need to be required to suffer the vigilance of we who would smash them into that oblivion they so richly deserve.