Thanx for the kind words Kimi_SFC, but bringing Holly Bobo home has been a tremendous group effort by many, and as the DC Sheriff stated, divine intervention played a huge part in the end. All the prayers sent up had to make a difference, imo. As we all know, awareness is the key in missing/murdered persons investigations in the 21st century. In the last decade, I can't remember but a couple of other cases where the community has gotten so involved in a missing person case as the Parsons, TN folks have. The awareness created via internet social media; facebook, twitter, including the websleuths family have all played a major part..
The list of law enforcement resources; local, state, and federal, utilized in the Holly Bobo abduction investigation is too long to name...TBI Director Mark Gwyn stated that this has been the largest and most expensive investigation in Tennessee's history..
"Holly Bobo Volunteers & Searchers Motto/Creed" :
"We Will Never Ever, Ever, Quit"
If we persist, if we continue to try,
if we continue to charge forward, we will succeed.
We will not hear those who weep and complain,
for their disease is contagious...
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey,
If we persist, if we continue to try,
if we continue to charge forward, we will succeed.
We will not hear those who weep and complain,
for their disease is contagious...
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey,
not near the beginnings,
and it is not given to me to know how many steps
are necessary in order to reach my goal..
We will never consider defeat,
and we will remove from my vocabulary such words as quit,
cannot, unable, impossible, failure, and retreat,
for these are the words of fools and cowards.
When our thoughts beckon our tired bodies homeward,
We will resist the temptation to depart. We will simply try again.
We will make one more attempt to close with victory, and if that fails, We will make another attempt.
When others cease their struggle, then ours will begin,
and we will eventually reach our goal of Bringing Holly Bobo Home...