Dear DeaFreedom Friends:

DeaFreedom.com has gone the way of the dodo. With the advent of social networking sites like FaceBook, small, privately-owned forums are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

I started DF for the express purpose of allowing folks in the Deaf/HOH community a place to discuss what was going on in our world without fear of seeing their opinions censored. I like to think I accomplished that, and had a lot of fun doing it.

We've all made lifelong friends who'll never be forgotten, learned a lot, grew up a little, and hopefully made the deaf world a slightly more interesting place.

DeaFreedom's data still exists, safely tucked away on an external hard drive I keep in my office, and rest assured that if the day ever comes when our opinions aren't welcome in the social networking universe, I'll drag her out of the mothballs and fire her up again!

Thank you all for contributing to something wonderful!

-Dale R. Patterson

P.S. - Sorry I got so sappy on Y'all right here at the end! :o]