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Named lectures invite wide-ranging reflections relevant to contributions of persons most often no longer with us. This commentary is stimulated by a recent lecture honoring two people who helped shape the HIV response in its formative years, Bosenge N’Galy and Jonathan Mann [1]. It is also influenced by the legacy of two others taken from us by criminal violence, Joep Lange and Jacqueline Van Tongeren [2]. N’Galy died in a car crash in 1989, Mann in a plane crash in 1998, and Lange and van Tongeren in the missile strike on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 [3].