An obligatory thanks to the DU Community. Even those who know who you are

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

I've had a few "hiccups" in my life recently.

A controversial post or two.

An argument or two.

And through it all, the overwhelming feeling is that I'm part of a family of sorts that has enough love to go around right or wrong.

Ten years ago, this would have been doubtful as an entity.

Twenty years ago, the closest thing would have been a few forums on CompUServe.

Thirty years ago, this was just about impossible.

Today's technology coupled with creative minds like the ones that created and run DU have given the denizens of liberal, moderate and conservative Democrats a place to vent, argue and commiserate with each other. For that, I can only thank the three amigos that run this joint. Thanks, Skinner, Elad and EarlG for this forum.

We all have disagreements, we all have opinions and sometimes we feel strongly about them.

A word of advice to those who haven't figured it out for themselves:

Even if you are a contributor, you don't own this board. Please respect the wishes of the founders. You can, for very little money start your own board to espouse views that do not fall into the parameters of the intention of DU by its creators. They thought of it, they built it... It's their puppy.





To go back to the original thoughts on this message, I have felt so much love from this community in the past few days that it has made my life better and more bearable. There are few things on the outside that can do that in today's society... And even fewer things that can do this in today's online societies.

Thank you all, you DU denizens. I lift a glass to each and every one of you.

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