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On the national Mall Oct. 11, 1987, friends and family mourn loved ones lost to AIDS. As the fear of the disease spread, many people finally realized that AIDS can somehow affect everyone. The June 12, 1987, issue of U.S. News said on the issue of HIV and AIDS: "The disease of them suddenly is the disease of us. The slow death presumed just a few years ago to be confined to homosexuals, Haitians, and hemophiliacs is now a plague of the mainstream, finding fertile growth among heterosexuals. It is today a crisis for the United States more deadly than many wars of modern times."
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