[VOA]

My grandmother, a nurse in a TB sanitarium in Wisconsin, died of
the disease when my mother was 12.

One segement of PBS's "History Detectives" was about tracing the story
of an ANCIENT Harley-Davidson motorcycle (just a bit more advanced
than a "bicycle with a motor").

The owner showed there was a "Cross of Lorraine" on the gas tank...and
thought it was maybe used in WWI in France.

But...no!
It was one of a number of motorcycles that HD donated to the Tuberculosis
prevention society (more like an army!) in Wisconsin in the early 1900s.
Tuberculosis educators would basically do a "circuit-riding"
job of educating folks out in the smaller towns of Wisconsin.

Some of the numbers mentioned about prevalence of (and mortality from)
TB in early 1900s USA and Wisconsin were pretty darned scary.

[Myrddin]

TB orphaned my great grandfather and his sisters in Wales. That was a prime reason he decided to emigrate to the U.S. in 1863. A walk through the cemetery at Ysbty Ystwyth showed whole families that succumbed to TB over fairly short time frames. Searching for family headstones at Ysbty Ystwyth and LLanfihangel y Creuddyn was a fairly educational experience. The history on those headstones isn't available in any books.