THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, October 21, 1996 TAG: 9610180011
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 25 lines
I would like to thank your newspaper for the wonderful coverage you provided regarding the NAMES project quilt display in Washington. D.C. (``Pieces of Memories,'' Oct. 13). Your compassionate response and touching articles touched me deeply, as a man living with HIV infection.
I, too, have walked the many quilt panels in years past searching for loved ones, including my brother, who died of HIV/AIDS complications in 1992. Staff writer Steve Stone captured many aspects of this event that affect so many of us living with HIV infection and AIDS. Never have I been so proud to return home and read exactly what I had experienced.
We are all living with HIV and AIDS in one form or another, and as founder and co-chairman of the Hampton Roads AIDS Walk Foundation 1996, I encourage all to walk with us on Nov. 3 at Town Point Park in Norfolk and at the Queens Way Mall Area in Hampton, to further assist our community in raising needed funds for AIDS service organizations.
KYLE R. TAYLOR
Norfolk, Oct. 14, 1996 by CNB