To: wintertime
People were sturdier in those days. Not everyone cowered at every misfortune.
Sometimes families can only deduce how the Spanish Flu affected their ancestors by noting dates on gravestones.
256 posted on
12/26/2021 12:58:26 PM PST by
jjotto
(Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: jjotto
When I asked my family members about the 1918 flu, the response was uniformly, “What flu?”
Odd. I have never been able to square that circle. Perplexing.
258 posted on
12/26/2021 1:02:25 PM PST by
wintertime
( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
To: jjotto
What my family **did** remember was TB.
259 posted on
12/26/2021 1:03:21 PM PST by
wintertime
( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson