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Have Amber alerts sent to you.

Facts

AMBER stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response" and was created as a legacy to 9-year old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, TX, then brutally murdered.

-76% of abducted children who are murdered are dead within 3 hours of the abduction and 88.5% are dead within 24 hrs.

-336 children have been reunited with their families because of AMBER alerts.

-70% of people with cell phones are eligible to receive wireless AMBER alert txt messages.

-100% of computers can have the AMBER alert ticker downloaded onto them.

-AMBER alerts are active in all 50 states.

YOU MATTER

Protecting children from abduction and locating those who have been abducted is the twofold purpose of AMBER ALERTS. They increase the number of people who can help locate an abducted child or deter predators, and the have caused perpetrators to release the abducted child after hearing or seeing the AMBER Alert. Remember, those first three hours are everything to that child and his or her family.

Your eyes and action could mean the difference between a life lost and a life saved.

from the book Every Monday Matters

by Matthew Emerzian & Kelly Bozza