Thanks to anyone who chipped in on the fund to sup­port the ongo­ing search for Craig. There’s some­thing else that all of us can do: look up you Senator’s info here and drop them an email or make a quick phonecall.  Craig’s family sug­gests that you include a request for US mil­i­tary assis­tance from  local bases. (A sample of what one might say or write is on the flip, cour­tesy of Find Craig Arnold.)

Please take a few min­utes to help the cause.
Dear Senator _______,

I am writ­ing to you to express my con­cern for an excep­tion­ally tal­ented Amer­i­can poet, Prof. Craig Arnold. He has gone miss­ing on a small vol­canic island in Japan called Kuchino-erabu-shima while rep­re­sent­ing his coun­try on a U.S.-Japan Friend­ship Commission’s U.S.-Japan Cre­ative Artists Exchange Fel­low­ship. Craig, an expe­ri­enced explorer of vol­ca­noes, never returned to his inn after leav­ing alone to visit the island’s vol­cano for the after­noon. As a con­cerned con­stituent, I respect­fully request that you please con­tact the U.S. con­sulate in Fukuoka and the U.S. Embassy in Japan and urgently request that they con­tinue the search for Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming Pro­fes­sor Craig Arnold using local U.S. mil­i­tary and D.O.D. assets, specif­i­cally those on Okinawa.

Prof. Craig Arnold has made a pro­found, sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to Amer­i­can arts and let­ters. He is also an inspir­ing and deeply caring father, brother, son, and much beloved by his family and his part­ner of six years, Rebecca. He is a gen­er­ous and devoted friend and teacher to many. We have reason to be hope­ful, as the small inde­pen­dent search-and-rescue team on the island has picked up Craig’s trail, and a little bit of rain has given us hope that he might not be too dehy­drated. But time is of the essence. The island is small enough that an extended search per­formed by expe­ri­enced searchers WILL lead to Craig’s dis­cov­ery, but we under­stand that more searchers on the ground are needed immediately.

Will you please keep me informed of action being taken to con­tinue the search? Thank you.

Sin­cerely,