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Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 4:11:34 PM   
btd64


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Status: offline 		Short message, Bill Brown passed away from a heart attack. This pass week. RIP Bill, you will be missed....GP

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 4:15:09 PM   
Anachro


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From: The Coastal Elite
Status: offline 		Rest in peace to him. He was a swell guy and a stalwart of this forum. He'll be missed.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 4:21:43 PM   
durnedwolf


Posts: 885
Joined: 5/23/2005
From: USA
Status: offline 		I received the following email today:

I am Robert,

Last Tuesday morning Bill suffered a heart attack and passed away. He left an instruction letter
and one item is to send this email to all on his contact list for this account.

I will be deleting this account soon, another instruction was to wipe this computer clean and
donate it to a worthy cause.

Sadly, Robert

I will miss Bill. I know he grew up around San Diego and that in his youth his family would come up to the Eastern Sierras for fishing and outdoor excursions.

I wish Bill fair winds and following seas.



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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 5:00:24 PM   
Kursk1943

 

Posts: 445
Joined: 3/15/2014
From: Bavaria in Southern Germany
Status: offline 		That is really shocking, I'll miss him.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 5:08:52 PM   
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Posts: 14863
Joined: 12/23/2010
From: St. Louis
Status: offline 		He was always helpful to anyone and never in a bad mood. Solid.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 5:24:24 PM   
Orm


Posts: 22154
Joined: 5/3/2008
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Rest in Peace, Bill.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 6:12:27 PM   
Kull


Posts: 2625
Joined: 7/3/2007
From: El Paso, TX
Status: offline 		Really, really horrible news. Bill was a true gentleman, always willing to help out new folks. One of the great members here, and his absence will be felt (it already is). Just awful.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 6:12:54 PM   
Zorch

 

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Status: offline 		And he didn't even play Chickenboy.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 6:27:14 PM   
WriterNotViking


Posts: 94
Joined: 8/7/2010
From: The Netherlands
Status: offline 		I never interacted with him, but his posts were often helpful to me. Clearly a great loss for the community, and more so for his family. May he rest in peace.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 7:14:53 PM   
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From: My Mother, although my Father had some small part.
Status: offline 		May he Rest In Peace.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 7:26:01 PM   
Sardaukar


Posts: 9847
Joined: 11/28/2001
From: Finland/Israel
Status: offline 		RIP

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 7:28:44 PM   
LST Express


Posts: 571
Joined: 3/1/2005
From: Texas
Status: offline 		RIP

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 7:30:13 PM   
Miller


Posts: 2226
Joined: 9/14/2004
From: Ashington, England.
Status: offline 		Sad news, hope he finds an opponent soon up above.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 7:46:17 PM   
John 3rd


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From: La Salle, Colorado
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quote:

ORIGINAL: durnedwolf

I received the following email today:

I am Robert,

Last Tuesday morning Bill suffered a heart attack and passed away. He left an instruction letter
and one item is to send this email to all on his contact list for this account.

I will be deleting this account soon, another instruction was to wipe this computer clean and
donate it to a worthy cause.

Sadly, Robert

I will miss Bill. I know he grew up around San Diego and that in his youth his family would come up to the Eastern Sierras for fishing and outdoor excursions.

I wish Bill fair winds and following seas.




Got this same message this morning. He was on our play-testing team for the new version of Between the Storms. A definite loss for the Forum and myself of a nice, gracious man.

Makes one think about making sure someone we know is prepared to let the Forum know if they are lost or suffer some form of severe set-back in life. How many have we lost and not known about it? Sounds like Bill prepared for the moment. It is a good note for all of us to remember. Looks like he is still helping even after gone.

I'll miss him.


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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 8:23:33 PM   
PTalvela

 

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Joined: 12/28/2019
Status: offline 		Really sad to hear this, RIP.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 8:23:59 PM   
rustysi


Posts: 7472
Joined: 2/21/2012
From: LI, NY
Status: offline 		Sad news. R.I.P. Bill.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 8:35:46 PM   
mikkey


Posts: 3142
Joined: 2/10/2008
From: Slovakia
Status: offline 		Rest in Peace, Bill.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 8:41:19 PM   
GetAssista

 

Posts: 2732
Joined: 9/19/2009
Status: offline 		One of the great members here. Sad news.
R.I.P. Bill

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/22/2020 11:05:24 PM   
Jorge_Stanbury


Posts: 4320
Joined: 2/29/2012
From: Toronto and Lima
Status: offline 		so sad to hear, RIP

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 12:29:49 AM   
Ian R

 

Posts: 3420
Joined: 8/1/2000
From: Cammeraygal Country
Status: offline 		RIP Bill.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 3:42:28 AM   
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Joined: 6/6/2008
Status: offline 		Fair Winds brother ...

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 5:34:18 AM   
Fishbed

 

Posts: 1822
Joined: 11/21/2005
From: Beijing, China - Paris, France
Status: offline 		Rest in Peace Bill :(

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 8:51:20 AM   
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Joined: 2/2/2008
From: England
Status: offline 		RIP fellow wargamer

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 10:33:08 AM   
Trugrit


Posts: 947
Joined: 7/14/2014
From: North Carolina
Status: offline
Very sad.

I did not know him well but I was told he was a good guy and a fierce competitor.

We are all brothers. We share a common passion for history and the game.
It has been said that brothers and sisters seldom grow up in the same family.

I think that is true.

Rest in Peace brother.


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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 1:14:49 PM   
Canoerebel


Posts: 21100
Joined: 12/14/2002
From: Northwestern Georgia, USA
Status: offline 		This is terribly sad news that caught me by surprise last night.

Bill was a soft-spoken guy who often did little kindnesses for players. Just a small for instance: A few years ago, John III ran into a bug running the next turn in our game. He couldn't figure it out. Bill offered to take the turn, load it and the mod and all the adjustments on his computer, and figure things out. Since neither John nor I are computer guys, we took him up on it. He figured it out, as the cost of much more time than he let on, and soon had us back in the game.

He was always doing little things like that. He was always kind. Always had good things to say.

I'd only recently noticed that he was taking on the mantle of PBEM. (If he had much earlier, I wasn't aware of it.) I was glad to see him coming more fully into the community.

Bill Brown was a gentlemen and one of the community who made it was it is - a place of good men.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 4:02:31 PM   
Scott_USN

 

Posts: 715
Joined: 6/2/2004
From: Eagle River, Alaska USA
Status: offline 		I didn't interact with him much but I did read his post and learned a lot. RIP

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 7:35:32 PM   
fabertong


Posts: 4546
Joined: 2/25/2004
From: Bristol, England, U.K.
Status: offline 		I started a PBEM with Bill just before Christmas last year.

I can't in any way say I knew him.....but in every interaction we had in the last three months I found him a genuine human being.

My thoughts go out to his Family and friends...….a very sad loss.

D.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/23/2020 9:45:27 PM   
dr.hal


Posts: 3335
Joined: 6/3/2006
From: Covington LA via Montreal!
Status: offline 		Very sad indeed, thanks for sharing and letting the Forum members know.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/24/2020 8:41:47 AM   
Barb


Posts: 2503
Joined: 2/27/2007
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Status: offline 		Sorry to hear the news.

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RE: Bill Brown - 2/24/2020 5:43:40 PM   
Kitakami


Posts: 1302
Joined: 5/3/2002
From: The bridge of the DNTK Kitakami
Status: offline 		Sad to read this. Best wishes for his family.

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