I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
“You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.”
“Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.”