Winkelman, Edward Anthony Saturday, December 12, 2020
went home to be with the Lord on December 10, 2020.
He was born in Holland and moved to the United States serving two tours in Vietnam as a paratrooper and Airborne Ranger before becoming a U.S. citizen. He was very proud of his military service in the Army and was highly decorated having medals and commendations including: Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, Bronze Star with “V” device, two Air Medals, Army Commendation Medal, two Good Conduct Medals, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, two Vietnam Campaign Medals, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Combat Infantry Badge and Parachutist Badge. After his military service, he worked and retired from TVA as a Senior Nuclear Instrumentation Engineer.
thousands of cases of hiv, the virus that causes aids, are reported across the u.s. the federal government s response is show. john winkelman was a college activist during that time. reagan didn t push for funding. nothing was happening. unfortunately, hiv was impacting first gay men and then drug users. everybody thinks that queers and junkies are expendable. let me honest with ourselves. when it comes to preventing aids, don t medicine and morality teach the same lessons? no new york, the city s large gay community is especially hard hit. a lot of fear and anger. people died very quick, horrible, horrible deaths. you had a government that wasn t telling you the answers to any of the questions that any of us had. what was this disease? how was it spread? in addition, the stigma and prejudice attached to the disease creates terrible consequences for those infected. people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health insurance. everything.
john winkelman was a college activist during that time. reagan didn t push for funding. nothing was happening. unfortunately, hiv was impacting first gay men and then drug users. everybody thinks that queers and junkies are expendable. let me honest with ourselves. when it comes to preventing aids, don t medicine and morality teach the same lessons? no new york, the city s large gay community is especially hard hit. a lot of fear and anger. people died very quick, horrible, horrible deaths. you had a government that wasn t telling you the answers to any of the questions that any of us had. what was this disease? how was it spread? in addition, the stigma and prejudice attached to the disease creates terrible consequences for those infected. people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health
by the mid-1980s, tens of thousands of cases of hiv, the virus that causes aids, are reported across the u.s. the federal government s response is show. john winkelman was a college activist during that time. reagan didn t push for funding. nothing was happening. unfortunately, hiv was impacting first gay men and then drug users. everybody thinks that queers and junkies are expendable. let me honest with ourselves. when it comes to preventing aids, don t medicine and morality teach the same lessons? no new york, the city s large gay community is especially hard hit. a lot of fear and anger. people died very quick, horrible, horrible deaths. you had a government that wasn t telling you the answers to any of the questions that any of us had. what was this disease? how was it spread? in addition, the stigma and prejudice attached to the disease creates terrible consequences for those infected. people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied he
response is show. john winkelman was a college activist during that time. reagan didn t push for funding. nothing was happening. unfortunately, hiv was impacting first gay men and then drug users. everybody thinks that queers and junkies are expendable. let me honest with ourselves. when it comes to preventing aids, don t medicine and morality teach the same lessons? no new york, the city s large gay community is especially hard hit. a lot of fear and anger. people died very quick, horrible, horrible deaths. you had a government that wasn t telling you the answers to any of the questions that any of us had. what was this disease? how was it spread? in addition, the stigma and prejudice attached to the disease creates terrible consequences for those infected. people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health insurance. everything. city government was also absent.