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Hey All,
My first post here (and my last one) but, as someone pretty involved in this whole thing I felt compelled to post something and also do it with a pretty up front username that would tell you I am the person who maintains the bringabbyhome.com website.
I wanted to mention a couple of things to people that I ask you all to read and keep in perspective as you post your theories and potential value judgments of other human beings
1. Everyone deals with grief and frustration differently. This is true in our community as I am sure it is in yours. Some people grieve quite vocally, some too vocally, and some internalize it. Some grieve through action, some inaction. Don't measure their caring or concern for Abby based on whether they post a lot about her. We all deal with this stuff differently.
2. For anyone who has posted about how they know someone who got "the pulse of our community" by visiting it and whether or not people are or are not talking about it, I can tell you that when over 500 people show up for a vigil on a cold Saturday night, and when every business in town has her photo everywhere (and some would say possibly even to the detriment of tourist business, to which all of the businesses would say they don't care because they just want Abby home) this is a tight knit and very caring community, and some may have theories and thoughts, but we would not necessarily be willing to share that with complete strangers and might be quite distrusting of those who ask us out of the blue. You might read into that "hiding something". I just call it "Good old fashioned New England common sense"
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4. Lastly, and even if you don't want to read anything above I posted, I do ask of you if you truly do want to help find Abby, for every day you spend on this board, also take a brief moment out of that day to go to the bringabbyhome.com website once a day, and get one of the photos of Abby and share it on your social media sites. It is truly our goal to keep her face and photo out there in as many possible places as we can. That is an actual concrete thing you can do, even when you are frustrated by lack of updates.
Thanks everyone for listening to this, and thank you for your good thoughts in the effort to continue to find Abby. We are not giving up hope and anything you can do to spread her photos would be truly appreciated.
And you know I respectfully disagree. Everyone in that town has been told to shut up and keep silent by the missing site and LE, I'll be darned if I'm going to follow suit, with all due respect to both you takeitfromme and PKirsch.
And you know I respectfully disagree. I think all this secrecy and keeping mouths shut isn't bringing this child home. The mother herself said to be on the lookout for odd behaviour in people, to not comment on that odd behaviour is useless. We're all using the board and each other as sounding boards, and we do keep it tight in regards to everyone involved in AH's life, however it's quite possible that someone she knew is responsible and we can't discount that for fear of disrespecting anyone. When it comes to getting a child home, I really don't care if someone's nose feels a bit out of joint. We all, whether we said it or not, were questioning JC's involvement, he's a character and half! Some still question his actions, but for the majority of us we all see him as a Papa Bear protecting his cubs and are happy he's fighting the good fight. Had we all not bumped it around, we'd still be sitting and wondering about him and although I don't know the man, I'm sure he'd be glad to know we considered him and bandied it around. There is a child somewhere out there missing, maybe alone, frightened and hurting and maybe even worse. There's been enough silence around this case and so far it hasn't gotten that child home. Everyone in that town has been told to shut up and keep silent by the missing site and LE, I'll be darned if I'm going to follow suit, with all due respect to both you takeitfromme and PKirsch. Maybe by keeping these threads moving and on top of the missing section we are doing something concrete, because the alternative is to do what everyone else connected with this case has done...shut up. Nope, not how I view "doing something concrete". As for putting her pics on my site, I've done that and sight lot more than some of those unmentionable kids she called friends, but again that's my opinion. I'm gobsmacked by the chiding and I'll choose to understand it's done out of the same frustration and desire to bring a child home and thrash the bejesus out of whoever took her, but silence and secrecy isn't the answer. So let's hash it out, map it, timeline it out and continue to shake the walls and hopefully something will fall out of the cracks. Just adding that appreciate your calm well-thought posts takeitfromme and I believe we agree on so many aspects of this case and I do understand your viewpoint, I simply don't agree with it. I also wanted to add along with the mappers and timeliners, the ears downstairs.
I'm a big believer that in anything monumental...missing person, school shooting, bomb threat at your own child's school. The more information you give, the more calm the community remains and the easier your investigation becomes. BUT the local authorities nor the FBI have yet to call and ask my opinion? :lol:
What if LE has had more sightings than the two rumors we've heard? Hard to prove seeing a girl walking down the Kanc is NOT Abby. So why not alert people? What if they have say 5 and haven't been able to formally discount them? WHY NOT TELL US?
"May have been seen walking here" "May be with ___, ___ or ___"
Then you bomb that area with her face and surrounding areas. Search around the area depending upon how solid or possibly solid the tip could be. Really, at this point if there truly is nothing, why not? If you have nothing look for something using whatever information you do have.
Hey All,
My first post here (and my last one) but, as someone pretty involved in this whole thing I felt compelled to post something and also do it with a pretty up front username that would tell you I am the person who maintains the bringabbyhome.com website.
I wanted to mention a couple of things to people that I ask you all to read and keep in perspective as you post your theories and potential value judgments of other human beings
1. Everyone deals with grief and frustration differently. This is true in our community as I am sure it is in yours. Some people grieve quite vocally, some too vocally, and some internalize it. Some grieve through action, some inaction. Don't measure their caring or concern for Abby based on whether they post a lot about her. We all deal with this stuff differently.
2. For anyone who has posted about how they know someone who got "the pulse of our community" by visiting it and whether or not people are or are not talking about it, I can tell you that when over 500 people show up for a vigil on a cold Saturday night, and when every business in town has her photo everywhere (and some would say possibly even to the detriment of tourist business, to which all of the businesses would say they don't care because they just want Abby home) this is a tight knit and very caring community, and some may have theories and thoughts, but we would not necessarily be willing to share that with complete strangers and might be quite distrusting of those who ask us out of the blue. You might read into that "hiding something". I just call it "Good old fashioned New England common sense"
3. <modsnip>
4. Lastly, and even if you don't want to read anything above I posted, I do ask of you if you truly do want to help find Abby, for every day you spend on this board, also take a brief moment out of that day to go to the bringabbyhome.com website once a day, and get one of the photos of Abby and share it on your social media sites. It is truly our goal to keep her face and photo out there in as many possible places as we can. That is an actual concrete thing you can do, even when you are frustrated by lack of updates.
Thanks everyone for listening to this, and thank you for your good thoughts in the effort to continue to find Abby. We are not giving up hope and anything you can do to spread her photos would be truly appreciated.
So I woke up this morning thinking of Abby. Last evening I checked that live webcam at the place she could have been seen.
I know why if it was indeed Abby LE would not tell. She would become a target for every bad person in the area.
We really need to let LE do their job in the way they are trained to do it.
It frustrates us but...so what. So we learn..PATIENCE a wonderful virtue.
Gosh I hope we hear she has been found today.
i always respect your opinion..... I mean, you're the MOM lol xoxoxox