We left NC early this morning in order to be in Signal Mountain to meet up with the friends of Gail Palmgren, 44, a mother of 2, who went missing April 30, 2011. This being a "fresh" case emotions were running exceptionally high. I thought it was awesome that this rally had been arranged by her best friend who lives out of state. 3 clotheslines hung with flyers of the 127 people who are missing from the state of Tennessee. It made quite a visible statement. I watched as everyone who arrived stopped and spent time looking at all the flyers. One thing that moved me was the amount of people who came out to support Gail, even though there were no family members present, and it had been arranged long distance. The media coverage and amount of law enforcement present was impressive.
Sometimes anger engulfs us when we feel we are not getting the things we want done accomplished. Sometimes our emotions work in our favor...squeaky wheel...and sometimes it doesn't...irrational. But it is an individual path and only those of us who have had the experience of having a missing love one know how many forks can occur in the road. In the end, though, we pick our direction...the right direction...because this is our journey....
Elisa
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