The sportswriter who made Twitter cry - Do you have a picture of the best moment of your life?
Richard Deitsch was perusing Twitter when one photo made him stop. At first glance it's unremarkable, not much different from any other victory photo. It's a bit grainy and shows three young men smiling and hugging.
One of the men had just won an NCAA hockey championship at Yale.
This pic of brothers Greg Day, from left, Anthony Day and Steven Bennett inspired Richard Deitsch to ask Twitter users for their best photo moments.
Deitsch said he was struck by something more than just the photo. He knew the man who posted it, Steven Bennett, host of a Buffalo-based sports podcast. Bennett is in the picture celebrating his younger brother's victory, despite having just spent more than six weeks in the hospital.
"You gotta come now," Bennett remembers his younger brother, Anthony Day, telling him over the phone. Bennett made it for the semifinal, which his brother's team won in overtime. For the final game, Bennett was joined by 23 family members, one of whom snapped the photo of all three brothers embracing.
"I thought to myself how remarkable it was to have an image of what was clearly one of the best moments of Steven's life," Deitsch said. "I wondered: How many others have a similar image? So I took to Twitter and asked," he said. He credited @Sports_Casters, one of Bennett's accounts, for the idea in his tweet.
And just like that, the heart of the Internet broke wide open.
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Some photos he received:
A little girl sees her brother for the first time.
First day my daughters went to school together.
Returning home from a 6 month deployment to see my wife, and meet my 2-week-old son for first time.
my mother, baking cookies with my son. She passed away 3 years later.
More:http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/tech/storify-best-moments
Do you have a picture of the best moment of your life?
After spending time on the interwebs, the vile nature of some people is disheartening to say the least.
This was like a burst of sunshiine that obscured all of that.
Dietsch is one of my favorite people in general much less sportswriter. He always has links to intersting an diverse sites.
