As much as I tell people "for the love of god fade!" I don't regret the DA letter for a second. Now all of them know, hey he didn't just sin and get kicked out, he didn't drift away because he couldn't cut it, he typed up a letter, licked a stamp and walked the fuck out head held high.
I never heard of a single DA in all my time in ( from age 4 to 27 ) it's the hardest thing I ever did and the thing I'm most proud of as a person. It sickens me that it's the exact thing my family now thinks I'm deserve to die because of.