THE LIFEBLOOD OF A GENERATION

20 The  harvest  is  past,  the

summer is ended, and we are

not saved.

 21 For the hurt of the daughter

of my people am I hurt; I am

black; astonishment hath taken

hold on me.

 22 Is there no balm in Gilead;

Is there no physician there? Why

then is not the health of the

daughter of my people recov-

ered?

<< Jeremiah 8:20, 21, 22 >>

These are the names of men I have known.  They were my friends.  They lived and worked and laughed and loved.  They are dead now, the victims of a strange new plague and an unresponsive government.  Some of them were gone before I knew their last names and some of their names, time and memory have erased or distorted.  But I will never forget them.  I have done the best I could.

George Banchero   Charles Ned Holland   Jim

Larry Glass   David Dobrovolny   Scott Kaiser

Jack   Eddie Nunez   Rex Sumner   Cordell Nelson 

Kenneth Waters  Joseph Bankston

I had planned to post this on December 1, World Aids Day.  

That didn't happen.  I'm sorry.