Everyone who is able, please go to your local fabric store and purchase a roll of wide yellow ribbon, a roll of 1/4" yellow ribbon and a card of straight pins.

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 distribute 100 ribbons by POW/MIA Awareness day next September.

The Operation Just Cause 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.


Thank you all for everything you are doing...


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