Several years ago I was returning to Edwards after a weekend in Vegas. My best friend had apparently put "goodbye" on Facebook and no one had heard from her in several hours. I started getting phone calls and texts from people asking about her so I called her nonstop for about 2 hours. Nothing.

I knew she was driving from SoCal to the Travis area that day. Instead of going home I went to my office and called the Travis CP. She was guard and had connections to Travis through her previous civilian job. They called the shirt from the unit she worked in and the went in and looked through old recall rosters to try to get information to see where she might be. They called the police and alerted troopers along the route she would have been driving. Nothing. I called my shirt and told him what was going on and he came into the office and stayed there ALL night in case the CP called back.

They finally found her mom's address and sent patrols there where they found her safe. It took her three days after that to call me because she was so ashamed of not believing anyone cared enough to help her.

Moral of the story: people care. Strangers care. Your worst enemy cares. The cop looking for your car cares.

I've never been in your situation but the burden burns deep for most of us to help in any way possible. It wasn't too long ago we lost a vet who thought no one cared. He posted it on FB. If only he could have seen the response