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 Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject: US Postal Stamp (AMBER Alert Stamp) on sale today |
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In honor of missing children, an AMBER Alert Stamp was issued and goes on sale today by the US Postal Service on National Missing Children's Day-
(May 25)
Links below.
http://www.amberalert.gov/home.html
(AMBER ALERT SITE w/information and stamp)
2)http://www.operationlookout.org/lookoutmag/Postal_Service.htm
Postal Service Unveils 2006 Commemorative Stamps
AMBER Alert
The U.S. Postal Service continues its tradition of drawing attention to important social causes by issuing the AMBER Alert stamp in 2006 to honor a program dedicated to the rapid recovery of abducted children. AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
Law enforcement officials will issue an AMBER Alert when they have sufficient information regarding the circumstances of an abduction and believe that the kidnapped child is in imminent danger of serious injury or death. A description of the victim and the circumstances is then sent to area radio and television stations via the Emergency Alert System and is immediately broadcast to the general public.
The AMBER Alert program originated in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, area in 1996 after the tragic kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, for whom the program is named. Other states and communities soon began adopting similar plans, and by 2005 a national alert system coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice extended across all 50 states.
AMBER alerts, which have helped in the recovery of nearly 200 children, can mobilize the community during the first critical hours following a kidnapping and provide the police with a wide network of eyes and ears to assist in the search.
Organizations that support the AMBER Alert program include the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Polly Klaas Foundation. The chalk pastel illustration by artist Vivienne Flesher shows a reunited mother and child entwined in each other's arms. The type on each stamp and text across the header of the stamp pane reads "AMBER ALERT saves missing children.
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