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In reply to the discussion: 'RIP William Rivers Pitt. Author, Husband, Father, and Friend. Flights of Angels, [View all]mia
(8,418 posts)208. Farewell, my friend.
Last post on Facebook.
William Rivers Pitt
September 23 at 12:40 PM
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too...
-- Fleetwood Mac
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'RIP William Rivers Pitt. Author, Husband, Father, and Friend. Flights of Angels, [View all]
elleng
Sep 2022
OP
Didn't he used to post here? Or am I thinking of someone else who was a regular about 10 years ago
Quixote1818
Sep 2022
#6
I left here of my own volition because the place became too DLC and too intolerant
tavalon
Sep 2022
#335
Yes. He was before my time here, but I remember a thread with screenshots of those.
Treefrog
Sep 2022
#239
+1. I think that's what is commonly referred to as an Inconvenient Truth.☝🏽
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2022
#367
That is sad. I never knew the details of what happened. The post was just gone...
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#407
I never saw the post, it was gone pretty quickly. I just heard about it...so I wasn't sure.
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#408
I only knew him briefly. And I have to say the stuff about Clinton which was parroted here by more
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#412
Was here from the beginning. Activist, history teacher, journalist, author, devoted father & husband
Hekate
Sep 2022
#154
Unconfirmed at Wikipedia, mobile phone edit by anonymous. No link here or there. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2022
#23
It's a shame, especially with half an adult lifetime ahead of him. . . .nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2022
#357
PLEASE! HAS THIS BEEN CONFIRMED? His wiki page and truthout.com say NOTHING about this
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#39
I mean, it's his page, where his friends are all confirming to each other that the news is true, and
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2022
#50
I don't know him well enough to know if those posters were close friends of his or not
dsc
Sep 2022
#83
Me neither. So I am not sure. Seemed to all start over there around same time as here.
boston bean
Sep 2022
#87
It was a joke. 'Dr Knauss' is, of course, the ex FLOT, and also a VPN can make you appear to be from
Celerity
Sep 2022
#324
I immediately thought of his mother as well. She is still an active member here.
Rhiannon12866
Sep 2022
#111
I checked there after I went to his FB page and saw the posts. No posts on Twitter
Autumn
Sep 2022
#72
Oh no! Such a light. So ahead of everyone in calling out the corrupt playbook of politics.
ancianita
Sep 2022
#65
Yes... I think about Matcom from time to time and he was close (at least for a time) w Will...
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#92
He never came over from DU2--so I think he's been missing since at least 2007..
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#308
maybe the issues were with the way many people attacked him for a rather benign comment.
Grasswire2
Sep 2022
#311
Yes, Kephra is still very fondly remembered here. I am still hopeful Will's report is wrong.
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#98
Nice choice of music. The Irish know how to memorialize. I too am in shock, Solly Mack.
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#265
I've checked and rechecked this thread, half expecting to find out this is some cruel
Solly Mack
Sep 2022
#280
My heart is heavy. Haven't been in touch for yrs, but in the era of the drumbeats 4 the Iraq war,
salin
Sep 2022
#142
I sent Mopinko some mail...when she/he didn't reply, I checked the profile...was worried... FFR.
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#387
I hope this is false news, Elleng. Nothing found on any news or progressive sites I searched.
KY_EnviroGuy
Sep 2022
#146
I don't want to believe this true and still hope I'll wake tomorrow to find it all an error.
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#156
Tragic. Here are his last posts on Truthout, where he was a frequent contributor:
Liberty Belle
Sep 2022
#157
His 2013-2016 profile below (no longer comes up on search results but old links work)
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#165
Thank you. It provides the link to his last post, which judging from the replies must have been ...
Hekate
Sep 2022
#171
I was working with the Veterans for Peace in those years, & Casey's mom Cindy Sheehan came by...
Hekate
Sep 2022
#419
Say it isn't so! His writing on Truthout (especially re PNAC) was unequalled.
CaptainTruth
Sep 2022
#223
I hope at our death, those who grieve us are not beaten down by our worst moments.
Cuthbert Allgood
Sep 2022
#348
Why zoom in on me? Did you miss the many revisionist posts, and outright mistruths about...
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2022
#363
Apparently, you got back to me before you got to others. Oh well. We could do this all day...
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2022
#366
So sorry to read this sad news. I had the pleasure of meeting him during the Bush Reign of Terror
msfiddlestix
Sep 2022
#254
Why don't Democrats get the benefit of doubt for being authors, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,
betsuni
Sep 2022
#266
Would you (and a few others) PLEASE read the room? It doesn't matter any more.
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#271
You are being insensitive as hell to the majority of fellow DUers, not to mention Raven, his mother
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#278
You are being a smug typical "centrist" who always thinks they are right regardless of anything else
JanMichael
Sep 2022
#321
Wait. You are holding a deceased mans feet to the fire? A waste of time betsuni, but you be you.
Autumn
Sep 2022
#360
I don't get where the few of you who keep insisting that so and so didn't clap hard enough
Autumn
Sep 2022
#396
I'm a Democrat and an intelligent woman. I don't need a fucking thought leader.
Autumn
Sep 2022
#399
It mattered only on DU to a few posters. It never made the national news and Obama never
Autumn
Sep 2022
#404
2016 had nothing to do with Obama and what William had to say. Not one damn thing to do with it.
Autumn
Sep 2022
#410
One of the first politically aware posts I read that would eventually
Baitball Blogger
Sep 2022
#270
I remember reading a lot of his posts. I didn't always agree with him, but I admired his
highplainsdem
Sep 2022
#273
So sad. Will was the most well-known poster in the early days of DU!
ElementaryPenguin
Sep 2022
#286