flavio00009, the semantics of "missing" does not alter the meaning. It's just that I've noticed that some norteamericanos have a tendency use wordage that could better be changed into the English. "Disappeared," is quite awkward.  To disappear, por ejemplo, is a nontransitive verb, and its past tense is "disappeared." He disappeared, she disappeared, it disappeared. So we're trying to make a noun of a past tense verb in English. Me entiende? Bueno, saludos a todos de Oregon.

yes you are right, I think that "missing" is a better translation for "desaparecidos" than "disappeared", but I think that they (U2) wanted to keep the force and the weigh of this word, it is for a semantical purpose, I guess. Greetings from argentina