[BluH2o]

Apparently, the 1918 flu pandemic lasted 2 years . It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, killing over 50 million people.

My grandmother died as a result of this flu epidemic in late October 1918 ... just a couple of weeks before WWI ended on November 11 in Europe. She left behind a husband and two young children ... the oldest at five was my Dad.

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“My grandmother died as a result of this flu epidemic in late October 1918”

My grandmother and mother lived through the period, but did not come down with it. My mother was only 7 in 1918, but the experience marked her for life.