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LTC Stephen F.
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Arthur Ashe was a very honorable and compassionate man in addition to being a great tennis player TSgt Joe C. AIDS ravaged many in the early 1990s - mostly homosexuals and intravenous drug users who shared needles.
Because of tainted blood supplies there was concern about the blood supply.
In March 2003 when I went through mitral valve repair surgery at the old Walter Reed Army Medical Center, there was concern about the blood supply.
I didn't pre-store blood. There were significant complications during my surgery and my pastor was summoned to pray for me in the operating room [I had shared my faith in Christ with the surgical chief beforehand]. I had 15 units of blood transfused and was bloated for a long time as the blood drained out of my chest cavity in the coming week or more.
I was tested fro HIV and Hepatitis and thankfully I contracted neither.
It is sad that Arthur Ashe died the decade before I went into surgery.
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SP5 Robert Ruck
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Yes he was. Loved to watch him play. He was poetry on a tennis court.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Died the same year my next to the youngest brother died from the same thing, only my brother received his blood transfusion at a military hospital.
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SFC George Smith
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thanks for the Sports history...
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