“It is a miracle that most of us survived those years,” reads the accompanying text by Sandra S. Phillips in Kenneth Graves’ photo book The Home Front. “Some of us in fact, many of us didn’t make it. Some of us served in that horrendous and misguided war; some of us escaped to Canada or left for other countries to avoid military service, which, at that time, was not voluntary. Some of us were lost to drugs, or to the civil conflicts in the South, or, later, to the devastating new disease called AIDS, which struck with particular ferocity in San Francisco’s Castro district.”