20 years of AIDS

So, today the United States is marking 20 years of AIDS. That is certainly not the correct date, but 20 years ago today, on June 5, 1981, the CDC first recognized a strange phenomenon occuring in five gay men written about in health journals…

I lost my friend Dickie to AIDS a year and a half ago. I hope and pray that my friends with HIV/AIDS live to see a cure, and mourn the hundreds of thousands who did not.

David Sperry