How horrific is the Air France tragedy? Sometimes I feel that at least if it were an act of terrorism the families could have someone to blame. But at the moment they can’t really blame anyone or anything. Is grief easier to cope with when you have a name and a classification for what happened?
I think the not knowing is the worst.
Not knowing where they are.
Not knowing if they were in pain.
No one to rage against, no one to hate.
At the start of the week Queensland police received over 300 callswith leads about Daniel Morcombe’s disappearance over 5 years ago from a bus stop on the Sunshine Coast. Many were prompted by the airing of a television show that named a person of interest and were received hours before the $1 million reward for information expired.
The Morcombe case is not news in Australia. That sounds terrible, what I mean is that I am sure there were very few people that had not heard about it. So why so many calls? Did the show actually jog that many memories? Had they been under a rock and not heard about Daniel and the fabulous foundation that his parents set up in his name to educate children about personal safety and to continue the search for Daniel?
It saddens me to think that people are only incentivised to provide information when there is a million dollar carrot dangled in front of them. But then, I guess information is vital, whether it is at this late stage or not.
If you or anyone you know has any information about Daniel’s disappearance please do not hesitate to contact:
Homicide Investigation Group, Brisbane, Phone (07) 3364 6122
any Police Station
or Crime Stoppers, Phone 1800 333 000.
You may not get a million bucks but you will get my eternal respect.
I wish the Morcombe family and the families of those on the Air France flight had someone to blame.
But more than that, I really wish their loved ones will come home.
It’s so sad isn’t it? I was still with Telstra when he went missing and our offices had signs up in the window and spread the word by email to as many folks as we could but for no use it seems….
Poor kid. Brings Madeleine McCann to mind too.
I thought it interesting that during the airing his parents had to repeatedly emphasise that they needed real, concrete information, not psychic visions…
Both of these incidents are so sad. The not knowing must be almost unbearable.
I read the story about the Morcombe reward, and I wondered “Why would they have it expire?” Presumably they were as keen to speak to people on Monday as Sunday. So why have an expiry date on it?
And in the Morcombe case, mainly because of the activities of the family’s church, his face was quite prominent when I was there, even a few years after his disappearance. So it was always quite a high profile case.