Did Robin Williams Say, 'Everyone You Meet Is Fighting a Battle You Know Nothing About'?

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Did Robin Williams Say, 'Everyone You Meet Is Fighting a Battle You Know Nothing About'?
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It's certainly possible that Williams would have wholeheartedly agreed with this sentiment.

It's certainly possible that Williams would have wholeheartedly agreed with this sentiment. Before his suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, when he wasn't on the set to act in films and TV shows, he was living with his family as both a husband and a father, two roles in life that, like being a wife and mother, can teach a person valuable lessons.

According to Twitter, the earliest tweet to feature the quote next to Williams' name came hours after his death. To us, this meant that Williams likely never said the words in the quote. Some of these first several tweets that are displayed in the screenshot above presented the quote as a statement related to Williams' death without directly attributing it to him as something he had said. It likely was these sorts of tweets that eventually led to other users later claiming that he had, in fact, once uttered or wrote the quote himself.The sentiment expressed in the quote was one that likely had been expressed for many years in a variety of different words.

On Jan. 26, 2013, author Tom Sileo wrote a story about Douglas Jay Green, a U.S. Army specialist who was killed on Aug. 28, 2011, while fighting in Afghanistan., whose reporting cited the Pentagon, Green was killed"when insurgents attacked his unit using a makeshift bomb and small-arms fire."

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