Orlando was a show down with the American Health Care Association (nursing home lobby group) folks. Orlando police wanted to show us who was boss. They had snipers up on the roofs of buildings and barricades where ever AHCA was present. The first day we marched to the main hotel AHCA was staying at, and much of the leadership got caught up in an attempt to storm the lobby. Many, many ADAPT folks were arrested and sent to jail for several days. It fell to the rest of us to keep the protest up during the rest of the AHCA convention and our creative capacity was challenged, but not defeated. We held pickets and teach-ins and alternate conventions and kept the message going till we were reunited. Those on the inside had a rough time but held strong. The last day Wade had everyone take a free day to go to Disney World or hang by the hotel pool. This was the last national action Wade took part in, as he drowned a few months later trying to save his son's life.