How many ex-CFCMI recall the Yellow Ribbon Campaign?  This started in 1993 as a movement to pray for L.R. Davis' release from prison.  At the time of his sentencing, he was initially placed in Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois.  This was a maximum security prison where the roughest criminals were incarcerated.  After a time, partly due to Davis' health, he was transferred to the Dixon Correctional Center.

The reason we were told to wear the yellow ribbons was this: L.R. Davis was falsely accused of the crimes for which he was convicted and sentenced.  Pete and Ed fed this line for years until after Davis passed away; me and many others at the time who were not pat of the inner circle then honestly believed Davis was innocent.  We wore those infernal ribbons every single day, even when we went to foreign ports (where nobody even cared).  We endured ridicule "for the gospel's sake" wearing those ribbons.  During one visit to West Virginia, my mother and I talked about Davis and she asked "what if it turned out he was guilty?"  I answered "that would not change God's word."

Of course, once the word was revealed that Davis was in fact guilty, I felt really stupid and betrayed.  We were lied to for so many years about Davis, and it turned out he deserved to be locked up!  Thank God he did not get released to hurt anymore people.  And finally, I thank God to be no longer there.