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Obituaries for 2023
mountaineer:
--- Quote from: mountaineer on May 06, 2023, 12:07:40 am ---My husband is a track nerd, and the talk at his running forum is that Tori was depressed over professional and personal setbacks, and took her own life.
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Wow, looks like the nerds were wrong. Still very sad.
--- Quote ---Report: U.S. Olympic Sprinter Tori Bowie Died in Childbirth
Warner Todd Huston
13 Jun 2023
Breitbart
American Olympic gold medal winner in track and field Tori Bowie shockingly died at the age of only 32, and now an autopsy has revealed that she died from pregnancy complications.
The former sprinter was found dead at her home on May 2 after the police were called to make a welfare check on her.
An autopsy report from the Orange County (Florida) Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that Bowie was around eight months pregnant and was in active labor when she died.
Medical officials said Bowie may have suffered from issues including respiratory distress and eclampsia, according to USA Today Sports. ...
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mountaineer:
Daniel Ellsberg, who disclosed Pentagon Papers, dies at age 92
by The National Desk
Fri, June 16th 2023, 2:43 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (TND) — Daniel Ellsberg, a government consultant who in 1971 leaked what became known as the Pentagon Papers and exposed the deceit of American policymakers during the Vietnam War, has died, according to multiple reports.
He was 92 years old.
The New York Times said his cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
mountaineer:
--- Quote ---We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong
Glenn Greenwald remembers the Pentagon Papers whistleblower and ceaseless anti-war activist
June 16, 2023
That you should never meet your heroes, as they are bound to disappoint you, has become such conventional wisdom that it requires no author to affirm it. In a 2020 satirical New Yorker article, Alex Witt attributed the proverb to the faceless “they” (“They say, ‘Never meet your heroes,’ ” adding, “It’s good advice. I’ve met all of my idols, and I’ve been disappointed by every single one”). Some internet pages attribute the quote to the British comedian Alan Carr after meeting Paul Newman, though that appears more apocryphal than reliable. It hardly matters who first said it; it just strikes one as intuitively true because the glaring, multi-faceted imperfections of humans when seen up close make a heroic image unlikely to survive interpersonal scrutiny.
Daniel Ellsberg, the renowned Pentagon Papers whistleblower, single-handedly destroyed the validity of this advice for me. Ellsberg was one of my two or three top childhood heroes. Though I was only four years old in 1971, when he knowingly assumed a high probability of life in prison to inform the American people about systemic lying by the U.S. government regarding the war in Vietnam, I became engrossed by both the Pentagon Papers and Watergate dramas as I entered adolescence. Those became the formative events for my understanding of politics and journalism.
The lies told by leading Pentagon and CIA officials about the Vietnam War were numerous, and they came fast and furious from the start of the U.S. role in the war in the early 1960s to its end in the mid-1970s. The lie that led Ellsberg to risk his liberty to expose was central. Top Pentagon and other U.S. Security State officials were publicly insisting they were getting closer and closer to winning the war, all while privately admitting from the start that victory would be impossible, that the best-case scenario was a stalemate with the North Vietnamese.
Ellsberg’s remarkable moral courage and self-sacrifice to try to stop an unjust war from spiraling even further out of control played a major role in shaping my understanding of journalism, the need for transparency, the virtues of bravery, and the duties of citizenship. I read everything I could get my hands on about Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers case. That someone at the age of 40 would be willing to spend the rest of his life in prison for a political cause both mystified and excited me. Ellsberg occupied a central place in my childhood imagination about heroism, integrity, and courage. ...
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Rolling Stone
Kamaji:
‘The Young and the Restless’ star Brett Hadley dead at 92
By Adriana Diaz
June 16, 2023
“The Young and the Restless” star Brett Hadley died Wednesday at 92, his close friend said.
His cause of death was not revealed but his photographer pal Mary Ann Halpin confirmed his passing on Facebook.
The actor was best known for his longtime role on “The Young and the Restless” as Genoa City police detective and Williams family patriarch Carl Williams.
“It is with a heavy heart that I have to say goodbye to my sweet friend Brett Hadley,” Halpin wrote.
“We were in an acting class and were the bad kids in the class. We sat in the back and giggled. I remember us sitting in his coverable WV … I will miss his playful and deep conversation, his funny flirty giggle and twinkling eyes. He took his last bow and gracefully left us yesterday.”
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/16/the-young-and-the-restless-star-brett-hadley-dead-at-92/
sneakypete:
--- Quote from: Kamaji on June 16, 2023, 06:12:10 pm ---‘The Young and the Restless’ star Brett Hadley dead at 92
By Adriana Diaz
June 16, 2023
“The Young and the Restless” star Brett Hadley died Wednesday at 92, his close friend said.
His cause of death was not revealed
Well,yeah,it was. He was 92 years old.
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