AIDS Quilt Placed on National Mall
Mourners of AIDS fatalities carpeted the National Mall with an enormous memorial quilt, each of its 38,000 panels dedicated to one of the more than 300,000 Americans who have died of the disease. The quilt, laid out on 21 miles of black matting to create a giant grid of walkways allowing visitors to inspect each panel, stretched a mile from the Washington Monument to the Capitol. Organizers said they expected at least 750,000 people to inspect the quilt over the three days it will be on display during the Columbus Day holiday weekend.
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