All the Wellstone threads in GD are making me sick...

Unfortunately it's that time of year, I know. Believe me, I know. I forever hate Octobers because the whole month is an emotional hell for me. And that book that's coming out? I don't know whether or not he was assassinated. Focusing on how he died just makes it even worse. Focus on how he lived, and what he and Sheila did with their short lives and how they changed so many other's lives. I wish there was a book coming out about his life...like I said, focusing on his death is like obsessing with how Jesus died and who killed him and all that stuff that shouldn't matter...it's how they lived that matters.

sorry, major rant thing...I'm just mad I saw those threads. I'm going to lay down now. Thanks for listening.

and our last sigh young dems meeting when I was a sophomore was the day he died. You're very right, lets remember how Paul lived not how he died, reminds me of what Stan said on south park about Jesus.

7th grade...seems like ages ago. I remember I had felt fairly well on the 25th then when I got home, I naturally turned on the news and I saw in on CNN Headline News 24/7. I had a pretty bad breakdown neither of my parents really understood because despite how much i obviously cared for Wellstone they must've not paid attention. On the night of the memorial service I got scraped really bad on a fence and had to get a tetanus shot. But it seriously took me two or three month to get over his death just because of how traumatizing it was...but then again I sympathize with people too much hehe. And coincidentally I started reading DU around January...I hear it was pretty awful during that October.

:D I feel so damn old
I ran in to my 10th grade english teacher the other day, great guy, very nice man. I remember being in his class like it was yesterday and I remember losing that stupid alpha smart and having to pay for it. Yet the thing is, it feels like DU has been up forever, eh its weird, its like saving private ryan when you realize that Tom Hanks and the others were only in normandy a week or two. I called my grandma the day he died, we both moruned the death of a hero, and I had a tribute to Paul and the ones who died in my sig line. Wellstone was the soul of the senate, if he were still with us, I believe I would haev liked to work for him.

for Senate. Maybe a presidential one...oh, how a little more time could've changed the world. Unfortunately no one in my family knew of Wellstone except from me, and absolutely no one knew of him in my school. :(

Edit: Unfortunately since Coleman's got his seat we're going to have to fight our asses off for it...I really hope Franken jumps in.

he had MS. He was great, we had our last meeting of young dems the day he died, so there wasnt any mourning and what not. Coleman is a bastard, I cant believe how arrogant that fucker is.

the bridal pary was getting manicures and pedicures in a salon and the TV announced Paul Wellstone was killed. I cried. :cry:

I saw it when I worked the DFL booth at MN state fair. It was $25. Look it up. You might like it. Here it is. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/gydesen_twelve.html

but thank you, it was a marvelous book. It's amazing how much of an impact those pictures had on me. I just wish it showed pictures from the campaign trail in 2002, cause that was the campaign I was most familiar with.

I work along side immigrants from all over the world, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Liberia, Cambodia. What I remember about that day was the genuine grief they expressed, because so many had personal and intimate stories about Paul helping them and their families.

a beautiful way.

got a call from Ramsey that he was dead. DS1 and I turned on the news in the car and phoned Will Pitt who was following behind us.

NEVER will i forget that call to Will. NEVER