Attached Link: http://archive.aclu.org/library/donnyobt.html

It's sad but it's not sad. I know a lot of people who would end up a basket case with half of what happened to Donaldson. I see the great ball player from highschool sweeping up at the market every week. My wife's friend never married after a bad relationship. Another one is still divorced and blaming her husband for her problems though he moved out of state 15 years ago. People have a little dream that doesn't come true and they just stop and keep eating and breathing for the next 20-50 years until they die. Very few figure out you just go get another dream. Stephen did. He got the warden fired from the DC Jail. He was head of a foundation that fought for prison reform. He filed a friend of the court (amicus)brief in the Farmer v. Brennan case before the supreme court. He became a counselor at St Vincents Hospital. He also wrote Thomas Covenant and other works. Other "firsts" include being the first native-born American ordained in the orthodox (Theravada) Buddhist Order on American Soil , and the first ethnically non-Indian American to be initiated into the Veerashaiva sect of Shaivite Hinduism in Bangalore, India in 1988. As Donny the Punk, he was also a respected writer and personality in the punk rock and anti- racist skinhead movements. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans. A man that has no fear is a fool. A man that acts in spite of his fear is a hero. Climbing off my soap box now. You can read most of this and more at the ACLU website I linked to.