[JohnBovenmyer]

I was born in 1932... So you were born 14 years after the 1918 influenza pandemic. Very likely your parents both had known many who died in that. Did they ever talk about it much? I didn't think so, most didn't. Most didn't talk about losing kids to childhood disease much either. I presume it hurt too much to bring back those memories. And most of us don't morbidly go in search of such information. But that doesn't mean the information… and the deaths didn't exist.

[Mears]

My Mom talked about The Spanish Flu often,

She lived in very rural Nova Scotia and there were deaths in her area.

My father died when I only 5 but his Mom,my dear Grandma,experienced it in the Boston area. She knew several persons that died but she and my grandfather,along with their kids, were very lucky.

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