On Anonymity

THE anonymity of Alcoholics Anonymous is a relative term. You are not anonymous to your associates, to your family or to your fellows. You travel incognito if you choose and largely to the extent you choose. The press often times, at some expense to themselves, have been most courteous in honoring the spirit of anonymity whether or not they sensed at the time the value it held for those yet unrecovered, or could fully comprehend the role it played in recovery.