World AIDS Day
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One of those things observed today since 1988 is World AIDS Day. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness of the scourge of AIDS, those characteristics of HIV infection, and remembering those who have died as the result of the devastation it causes the human body.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was once a source of humor in my life. Nowadays I don't think it's very funny ... mainly due to the many who have succumbed to it's dreadful effects; but also due to my childhood friend, Chris who I lost some 22 years ago but did not find out until quite recently.
It is a sobering notion of that painful mechanism taking him with my understanding of it's course and outcome.
Be all of this as it may, I hope you'll take pause and say a little prayer for those suffering with the disease and contribute to those efforts to eradicate it if you can.