[soozla]

My grandmother was 8 years old at the time of this epidemic. She is alive today. Maybe she's passed along some sort of immunity to "killer" flu bugs. I can only hope. She has lived an incredible life!!

[unkus]

My grandmother was 36 when she died of the flu in 1918. My grandfather got sick but survived. I wonder if DNA on survivors off spring would be useful. I am ignorant of these things.

[Bigg Red]

My mother was a child when the epidemic struck. She was forced to start school a year late because all of the schools were closed the year she would normally have gone into first grade.

[davisfh]

My father survived it, but just barely. He was unconscious for two weeks with an associated encephalitis. Though he wasn't aware of it at the time, his health was forever broken and he finally died with a recurrent encephalitis in 1946 at the age of 57.