This is a picture of an AIDS Memorial Quilt display on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., a pretty awesome sight. the newest 1000 blocks of the Quilt are on display in Washington starting today and continuing through the weekend, to accompany National AIDS Testing Day. To learn more go here, a place to click for more information about this weekend's display is the first thing you'll see on the site. before you leave the opening page take time to read the statistics in the crawl bar at the bottom of the screen. any of you who live close enough to D.C. to get there sometime this weekend, it's worth the trip. i'm going in on Sunday to spend some time there, remembering friends who died from this plague, among whom is a baby that a friend of mine fostered until his sad little death. he and all his brothers had been infected by their drug-addicted parents. this is not a disease of the guilty, as some would have us believe. this is a disease that affects all ages, all races, all genders, all sexual lifestyles, a disease that is destroying entire peoples on the continent of Africa. with all we have to think about and work both for and against today - let's not forget this killer is still among us.
3 comments:
that is just amazing!
Beautiful! Disease of guilty? Guilty of what? That's like saying someone has cancer or a heartattack because they are guilty. Sad!
I saw the 9/11 quilt when it was in Los Angeles. It was bitter sweet to read the panes. :-) ---Robbie
The size of the quilt is staggering. That each block represents a life lost to this horrible disease even more so. The fight of course, continues. One of the more visible organizations in the fight against AIDS was founded by Nelson Mandela, 46664.com. CDs and other items are sold on the site, with proceeds going to the fight against the disease in Africa.
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