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Yeah, yeah, AIDS stirs the feelings of those touched by it like few diseases can in San Francisco today. Feelings with a focus at one very special gathering, Rob Roth reports at the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. Today was a time to be together at

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a time to be alone. Yeah, this was not the place to talk about strides and research or the latest drug therapy. This was a place to remember those who died of AIDS. Some people brought flowers. Some stare at the names etched in stone. During a brief

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ceremony, Senator Dianne Feinstein spoke of all the money the government spends on AIDS, while Mayor Willie Brown mentioned the great effort it took to build the grove. And a mother spoke about what it's like to watch her son live with the disease each day. That he

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lives is a blessing to me and to our family, and yet we know the uncertainty that is his daily companion. So we try not to miss any opportunity to spend time together and to tell him how much he is loved. Tonight, when you go home before

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bed, maybe when you brush your teeth or turn out the light. Think once more on a person you have lost to AIDS. Come to my garden. The epidemic has killed almost 17 people in San Francisco. The toll includes 33 year old William Horton, his companion, and

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in the end, his caretaker came to the grove. Today we used to go for long walks in the park, and he would find such inspiration in our walks, and he would have loved the grove here. Had he had he lived to see it. When I come

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here and I see Billy's name inscribed in the circle of friends, I'm just I'm just overwhelmed. The epidemic has also taken. 36 year old Michael Gomez loved the outdoors. He loved music and the jazz he love loved making music. His parents say Michael didn't tell them

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he had AIDS at first because he was afraid they would worry. His death was something that I didn't know if I could could tolerate. It seems so, so unfair, and I was a nurse and I said he had the best damn good nurse in town, but

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still didn't take away three. There's sadness and the, um, to my God, Jordan nestled in in the hill. There, I'll see you safe beside me in San Francisco. Rob Roth for the 10 o'clock news. Yeah, Mhm. Mhm.