~Beth Twitty's Foundation~God Bless you Beth~You are a gem !
SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE THIS FOUNDATION SET UP IN HONOR OF NATALEE. GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS BETH !
http://safetravelsfoundation.org/
Saturday, March 11, 2006
SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE THIS FOUNDATION SET UP IN HONOR OF NATALEE. GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS BETH !
http://safetravelsfoundation.org/
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Good luck Beth on your foundation. May it help to keep many safe in the future.
Bless you Beth. We are praying for you. You are a woman of courage. I know its hard but hang in there.
GOOOO BETH. KEEP UP THE DAMN GOOD WORK !! GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS !
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
HANNAH WOLFSON
News staff writer
Natalee Holloway might be safe at home if she had known the dangers of traveling abroad, her mother said Tuesday night as she kicked off a national safety awareness campaign for teens.
Beth Twitty spoke at Mountain Brook High School, her daughter's alma mater, urging students not to let their guard down if they leave the country. Holloway, 18, was on a graduation trip to Aruba when she disappeared May 30.
"She never saw this coming. She was blindsided," Twitty told the crowd of about 500. "Natalee had a false sense of security with her many friends there. She was too confident, she felt safe and she let her guard down for a moment and in that moment she was taken."
Could happen to anyone:
Choking back tears, Twitty recounted her daughter's trip, from dropping her off at the airport with a hug to racing to Aruba after she disappeared. Twitty said her daughter was abducted, raped and possibly murdered and the same thing could happen to anyone.
"I can't make you understand the emptiness I experience when I get up every morning. I can't make you feel the pain I feel when I walk by her empty room," she said. "I just pray that your parents can avoid ever experiencing that pain."
Twitty accused Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch teen suspected in Holloway's disappearance, of taking advantage of her daughter. She did not comment directly on a Fox News Channel interview to air tonight in which he says he doesn't think Holloway is alive.
Twitty told the students not to separate from their friends, not to leave a drink untended and not get into a situation where they can't defend themselves.
"I can't find Natalee," she said. "It's too late for me and my daughter, but it's not too late for you."
In coming weeks, Twitty will travel to Indiana, Michigan, Louisiana and Kentucky to share her message. She's also setting up a foundation and a Web site.
Brandi Gulow and her family drove two hours to see the presentation. They hope to ask Twitty to speak to their school system in Rome, Ga.
"That could easily have been anybody's daughter," she said.
Holly Brown, a friend of Holloway's who was on the trip, said the message is important because the students never imagined anything bad would happen.
"People our age are just too trusting," she said. "We live in such a sheltered community I think we were all kind of oblivious to the dangers of an island like that."
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1141208980276620.xml&coll=2
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