I realize that few here will remember the yellow ribbons and such from 1979, when the Iranians took 52 American hostages and held them for 444 days.  I was all the news and every tree had a yellow ribbon wrapped around it.

I guess that trends went down the toilet with the advent of those irritating car magnets.  You are probably wondering where I am going with this, right?

OK i will get to the point……ever hear of Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell?  Probably not!  These three Americans are the longest held hostages  But there are no ribbons for them.  These Americans have been held by the Colombian rebel group–FARC–for over 5 years.

Granted there are only 3 of them, but they are Americans and as such deserve the same respect and concern of all Americans.