IT'S TIME TO TELL MY TRUTHS ABOUT AMERICA'S FURTURE

I think it's wonderful that the British Royals - at least Diannah's boys - are going public with the fact that their mom's death affected them both emotionally. Gee how normal can you get. They even had moments of 'clinical depression' with all of the messiness that the 'disease' entails. Oh how brave they are to have risked being stigmatized as - I dunno uh normal'. Perish the thought. First, I think that STIGMA is the most overused and misused word in both the English and American languages. When I think of 'Stigma', I think of walking down the sidewalk with my friend Joe, who early in the AIDS crisis, looked the part of someone about to die of AIDS. He had Kaposi's Sarcoma lesions on his face and arms and legs, and sadly, internally, and upon seeing him, people would go our of their way to cross a street to avoid being even near us. Or I think of when my 33 year old sister - a Harvard Graduate with honors, suffering from the wicked symp...