In These Times

We should not forget the 16,000, mostly young, Americans that died in the most serious epidemic our country has faced before this great humanitarian could utter the word AIDS in public. I was at the event when Reagan first acknowledged the disease and remember the audience booing him after the line, "we do what we can then it's it God's hands". Did he think he was talking to a Baptist convention? Many lives could have been saved by a government sponsored information campaign, which did not happen because the early victims were not his constituency. It appalls me to read the …

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