Has anyone heard from WilliamM?

[samhexum]

I noticed the other day that it's been 2+ months since @WilliamM posted.  I sent him an email Saturday asking if he's okay, but no reply so far.

[MikeBiDude]

I also sent a message to his personal email weeks ago, no reply.🙁

[Stormy]

I messaged him.  No response unfortunately.  

[Cooper]

The other day was @WilliamM birthday. I sent a birthday greeting to his personal email address. In the past he always replied but, sadly, not this time. 

[+ José Soplanucas]

[+ Pensant]

I was just thinking of him the other day. I hope he’s okay. From his posts, one imagines a very nice man who would be a lovely neighbor.

[Luv2play]

IIRC WilliamM was drafted and served in Vietnam. As such he was part of my generation. As a Canadian I wasn’t directly touched by that war but I have a vivid recollection of my older brother’s best friend who became an American and also served in that war. On leave he came to Montreal and paid us a visit. 
I was in university and had professors who had left the US to teach in Canada . They were staunch opponents of the war and their views rubbed off on me. 
I got into a debate with this friend of my brother and remember him saying something along the lines of me supporting Mao. Today he is still alive and my brother will visit him in Maine this fall although he lives in NorthCarolina. I think this will be their last visit. Time waits for no-one. 

Edited July 23 by Luv2play

[+ Lucky]

https://www.companyofmen.org/profile/2432-williamm/content/

[Luv2play]

I am amazed at how many posts he made. He really contributed a lot to our discussions. I also recall a few members, one in particular who no longer participates, would accuse him of having one too many drinks when William committed a non sequitor. Which he sometimes did. Part of his style I suppose. 

[CuriousByNature]

I noticed his profile shows he last visited the site on May 29, which is only 7 weeks ago.  If the obituary is from a few months ago, perhaps it was a different person?

[MikeBiDude]

47 minutes ago, CuriousByNature said:

I noticed his profile shows he last visited the site on May 29, which is only 7 weeks ago.  If the obituary is from a few months ago, perhaps it was a different person?

I’ve hidden my post…as we are doing more research. Indeed, seems @WilliamM ‘s account shows activity after the date of the obituary. We are researching….

I’ll continue to try and reach him.

[+ José Soplanucas]

You know I do not pray, but I am really, really wishing he is ok. With all my strength. 

[+ Charlie]

Although William M and I lived for years in the same city, even the same neighborhoods, I didn't become aware of him until I joined this site, and I didn't recognize him as someone I had known in the many years I lived in Philadelphia. He never gave any indication that he recognized me either, although I had been reasonably active in the local gay community for many years (I was involved in the gay rights movement in the 1960's, and was active in community organizations during the AIDS crisis in the 80's). On this site we often disagreed with one another, generally on rather trivial subjects, but we never made any effort to meet or find out who "Charlie" and "William M" were in real life. It was clear from his posts that we were about the same age, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that he  has passed, like so many of my contemporaries. I wish I had seen MikeBiDude's post of that obituary, so I could have speculated on whether it could have been William.

[CuriousByNature]

22 hours ago, Charlie said:

Although William M and I lived for years in the same city, even the same neighborhoods, I didn't become aware of him until I joined this site, and I didn't recognize him as someone I had known in the many years I lived in Philadelphia. He never gave any indication that he recognized me either, although I had been reasonably active in the local gay community for many years (I was involved in the gay rights movement in the 1960's, and was active in community organizations during the AIDS crisis in the 80's). On this site we often disagreed with one another, generally on rather trivial subjects, but we never made any effort to meet or find out who "Charlie" and "William M" were in real life. It was clear from his posts that we were about the same age, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that he  has passed, like so many of my contemporaries. I wish I had seen MikeBiDude's post of that obituary, so I could have speculated on whether it could have been William.

The obituary wasn't posted - I only noticed that he mentioned a possible obituary stating a death from a few months back, and then I looked at William M's profile and saw he was last on the site at the end of May.  Thankfully the obituary couldn't have been his.