Damn! Check out the "My name is Steven Joseph Vincent" thread!

[Nordic]

If you haven't clicked on it, you gotta check it out.

For some reason I can't quite fathom, it's the most emotionally powerful thread I've ever seen on DU. Or anywhere else.

I've still got goosebumps.

I clicked on it by accident, no shit. I didn't want to click on a thread that big because they usually start slowing my computer way the hell down if they approach 100 posts. But this one didn't for some reason

[hlthe2b]

1. WHERE??????????????????? Search function down.....WHERE??????

:shrug:

[PretzelWarrior]

3. right here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2587059&mesg_id=2587059

[LearnedHand]

2. Mortos is an AWESOME writer...

...so I always read his threads. That one, though, stunned me like nothing else I've ever seen. I can't explain it, but I suddenly felt as if I had 55,000 close family members in the room with me.

[walldude]

5. It's kicked.. almost 600 replies, best thread ever...

[WilliamPitt]

4. Link?

[walldude]

6. here ya go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2587059&mesg_id=2587059

[LearnedHand]

7. Hey, Will

How's that face?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2587059

[PretzelWarrior]

8. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2587059&mesg_id=2587059

[Nordic]

9. sorry, I'm an idiot, didn't put in the link! Thanks to those who did!

[Nordic]

10. I realized what's so cool about it --

Okay, there's a lot that's cool about it --

But usually when you read a list of names like this, it's of dead people. Victims. Soldiers.

This is a list of LIVING PEOPLE! It's fucking AWESOME.

We're all ALIVE.

It put a face on DU that I never knew existed.

[PretzelWarrior]

11. you brought up a good point. living HOPE. living vitality

normally such living lists are the antiseptic columns of courier typeface showing a high school honor roll or a list of donors to a civic center.

this list comes complete with some minor biographies and "Remember the Alamo" type of stick-to-it-iveness we need.

BEsides, we know we will be virtually rubbing shoulders with all these names--these people...and may even meet up with a number of them in the real world at campaign stops, protests, strategy sessions...it is exciting and uplifting.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. The most inspiring thread ever on DU

And it keeps going and going and going! :-)

[AnnitaR]

13. Chris Heinz said the same thing in his post!

I agree!