Walk Raises Money, Honors Aids Victims

Parents, friends and lovers left behind in the AIDS epidemic were among 35,000 people who took to Central Park on Sunday to honor the dead and raise millions of dollars.

“It’s such a beautiful day and such an important cause,” said Eva Friedman, who walked the six-mile charity route with two teenage goddaughters.

“I lost a very incredible and wonderful friend to AIDS. He was only 29,” said Friedman, 43.

Walking with about 50 other Sony employees, George McGlinchey, 64, remembered his 41-year-old son, who died of AIDS two years ago.

“If everybody did more, it would be a much better world,” he said.