My purpose in showing that photograph is not to persuade but to explain. I accept that some are of the opinion that they were seeing a couple hiding desperation, guilt, overwhelming despair and broken hearts behind a brave smile, but ithers were astonished and began to wonder. Wondering isn't hateful it's a natural reaction to something the viewer finds inexplicable.
A burst of nervous laughter from Gerry would more or less prove he was hiding desperation, guilt, overwhelming despair and broken hearts, the effort of trying to keep it all in, a balloon breaks free in front of his face and he laughs, a bodies natural way of releasing tension. It really annoys me when people who are quite ignorant of the Psychological impact such a trauma has on the human brain will keep showing something like this to prove what? The McCann's were laughing because their child was missing? It really is disgusting. IMO