World Aids Day

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Today has been a Bad Pain Day. Have spent hours lying in bed clutching my gall bladder. Yay.

More importantly, it is World Aids Day. Light a candle. Apparently $1 will be given for AIDS research for each candle lit.

geminigirl recommended ruralrob's journal as worth reading, and indeed it is. Today's post is called Shame, Philadelphia and Redemption . . .. Night and day . . ., Banded and AIDS on the streets of Montreal are also on the same theme. And his other posts are interesting. I especially liked Montreal graffiti.

Another highly moving article is this Final Salute. About the US Marines whose job it is to notify families of their loved one's death. 12 pages, and I cried all the way through. And I'm not even American.

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I read the Final Salute thing. I cried, not because of the people in the article who'd lost someone, really (mostly, that makes me angry, but I'll save the political rant) but because the way they talk about the Marines being there for the family- that's how I feel about my family and friends since Neph died.

Sure, no one stood guard over his coffin (and frankly, I think he would've called it a waste of time) but since the day he died people have been there for me, in one way or another, and I know that they'll continue to be.