Sep 9, 2006 12:31 pm US/Mountain
AIDS Quilt Arrives In Denver
by Molly Hughes
DENVER (CBS4) ―
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A picture of Pam's brother, Steve, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt
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More than 5,000 square feet of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are in Denver. The project was started nearly 20 years ago so victims of AIDS would not be forgotten.
Fifty two miles of fabric, 46-thousand panels sum up 83,000 lives on three-by-six foot rectangles on the quilt.
Pam Morgan, who has a tribute to her brother on the quilt, keeps a few mementoes of his life, tucked in a box; among them a treasured letter.
"Dear friend," Pam reads from the letter. "Thank you for participating as a volunteer in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, sincerely Bill Clinton."
Pam's brother Steve volunteered for one of the first studies on AIDS drugs.
"When I look at these letters, I think someone acknowledged Steve for giving himself up to help other people," Pam said.
Pam misses her big brother deeply, but she made sure that his legacy would live on. She and her sister Kim made a panel for the quilt in his honor.
"I felt he needed to know that we were going to remember him," Pam said. "He would not be forgotten and he really, really appreciated that."
After years of waiting and requesting, Steve's quilt panel is finally in Denver. Pam gets to see it for the first time since she made it.
It's hard not to touched by the love and loss that is stitched into every panel of the quilt... Pam's is no exception....
"I love that picture," Pam said of a picture of Steve on the quilt. "It's like he's telling me, 'it's okay, Pam.'"
Learn more about HIV and AIDS at the annual Aids Walk Colorado Sunday morning at 9:30 in Cheesman Park.
For more information call (303) 861-9255.
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