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Macky
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This was in yesterday's paper. The way Elton remembers Ryan is the way I'd like to be remembered too. Elton's letter makes me want to get up off my ass and do something. And I guess that is Ryan White's living legacy. There are some really truly selfless loving people out there. Saints for us to emulate.
Max
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/22/AR2010042203658.html
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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Twenty years ago I wept when Ryan White died. Elton's letter made me cry yet again. Such a great sadness that can never be forgotten, such a great life to remind us of how to be human.
I was among the thousands that stood outside the White House fence and screamed "Shame" at an uncaring president, he wasn't even home that weekend. Ronald Reagan had the audacity to live in the people's house and ignore the plight of millions with AIDS. The only word I will ever remember him by is shame.
Elton is right, so many good things happened after Ryan died, so many things happened because of him. Lest we forget:
http://progressivepulse.com/blog2/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/whiteryan-ap.jpg
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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The courage and compassion of that boy was inspiring to an entire nation. I believe his death was the springboard that caused middle America, the caring part of our country, to change their perception of the disease. AIDS was no longer a disease of the dirty degenerates and drug users who 'deserved what they got'. So, if it weren't for this sweet, innocent youth that contracted this disease, who knows how long it would have taken to receive the funding necessary to combat it.
Thank you so much, Ryan, for being the person you were. You may not have been the scientist that developed the treatments, but your suffering and death went a long way towards providing the impetus and national desire to combat it. You are my hero. What a hard, hard way to bring about change.
And hero number two has to be Sir Elton John. Here is a man who made a promise and twenty years later is still living up to it. You are right, Max. Here is truly someone for us to emulate. Thank you for pointing out the article.
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ray2x
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I remember Elton singing "Candle in the Wind" at the Farm Aid benefit concert just after (or before?) visiting with Ryan White. It was a stirring moment which I have not forgotten.
Raymundo
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