thanks for posting this s&F for spreading it.

its a shame it didn't get picked up like the other thread but its here that's what matters

I had to stay for awhile inpatient in a VA hospital. I was an early 40's caucasian f, scrunched in with a bunch of male Vietnam veterans, some white guys, mostly black guys. I would never been 'socializing' with these people otherwise. I learned how much a 'book's' 'cover' can misrepresent him. I'll never forget sitting very close next to this skinny white guy, who I later learned had AIDs. If I knew such at the time, my fear and prejudice would have caused me to sit --not-- near him. Another gentleman, black guy, looked like your typical inner city resident, but when he spoke, I could tell his IQ was alot higher than mine, thats for sure. That was the most INTENSE time of my life, since something that happened to me in the early '80s, (which is a whole other subject) but I would never ever elect to relive it again, as it came with traumatic hearbreak and loss. (Death). But it was a H**l of a learning experience. To say the least.