AA Grapevine from March 1971 - Bill W. Memorial Issue

This Bill W. Memorial issue of the Grapevine is from March 1971, a little over month after the passing of AA cofounder Bill Wilson on January 24, 1971.

This is a dedication to the life of service that Bill W. led in Alcoholics Anonymous.

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NEITHER CO-FOUNDER of the Alcoholics Anonymous Fellowship is with us any longer, and we, their survivors, are on our own.

Dr. Bob passed away on November 16, 1950.

Bill found eternal peace on January 24, 1971.

Beyond the sorrow of the moment, Bill and Dr. Bob remain for us what they were in the years when AA came into being through their leadership: symbols of firmness of purpose and serenity. We have all partaken in some measure of the sobriety they achieved and of the message they carried until their final moments among us.

Full comprehension of their achievements is difficult to set down in black and white. Both men filled the vacuums of their own souls with their "language of the heart" to find sobriety, and then passed on what they had found to hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions by now of other alcoholics. Each of us, in the lonely universe of individual consciousness, must reckon what he or she has taken of the gift that the Higher Power gave to Bill and Dr. Bob, the gift that they shared with us. The measure of our debt is, of course, drawn somewhere near the limits of gratitude itself, in the infinity of love.

They are both gone now.

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This is an original issue from 1971. This Grapevine is in very good condition with sone edge wear and stains.

Please view all of the photos for the conditions.