In Memorium - 25 years of AIDS- Page 2

[wexy]

Posted: 6/1/06 at 9:00pm

I started my job evaluating disability claims on June4th 1981 and the first report came out the next day. I saw the whole epidemic unfurl before my eyes,AIDS, ARC. I knew at least 15 of my coworkers that died, a half dozen classmates and saw many claimants as well.

A lot of progress has been made, I can't remember the last AIDs case that I've allowed.Can't rest though.

[jlc6314]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 12:24am

When I was a lot younger, I had an older cousin, Jimmy, who I was very close with. He was always kind of an outcast from the family, and ended up moving to California to get away. Not too long after we got a call that he had died from AIDS. It was like having my best friend taken away from me, and there was nothing I could do about it.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 12:35am

Just think, the cure is right in front of us: Monogomy/Abstinence

what an a**hole of a first post......seems Rodney K is back

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 12:40am

E, (ignore)

Rhodes was a bitchy waiter who worked with my wife when we were young, he is gone!

My wife's friend Dan lost his partner also! He was a passionate man who believed in ghosts! So funny and such a joy to be around!

[jimnysf]

Posted: 6/2/06 at 1:13am

Too many gone too soon.

My cousin Billy. He was a couple of years older than me. Back then, some funeral homes wouldn't even take a person who died from AIDS. There was one on 14th Street that did. No one from the family went to his wake except for me. During the daytime, many of his friends were there but at the evening viewing, I was the only one there. Just me and my dead cousin in a closed coffin. I sobbed like a baby. The next day, at the funeral, the family showed up. When I asked them why they did not come to the wake, they said that they were afraid that "the gays" would have turned the wake into some kind of circus. How sad for them, and for him.