[FreedomPoster]

While the author did just say "bloodiest day", I took it to imply "from an act of war", and not just greatest number of deaths from any cause. This is not to detract at all from the tragedy that was the Galveston hurricane.

[Ditter]

I have heard the Galveston hurricane dismissed as not being so tragic because the deaths occurred over 'several days' but that is simply untrue. The deaths occurred in a very short period of time. I know very informed people who have never heard of this tragedy until recently. I don't understand the reason. The Jamestown flood is in all the American history books but not the Galveston hurricane. I guess the reason it is so very large to me is because my grandfather survived it & I grew up listening to his stories.

[RobbyS]

This is not to detract at all from the tragedy that was the Galveston hurricane.

Funny how human memory fades. We have forgotten about Galveston, and the great Flu epidemic of the later WWI periond, which puts the present AIDS epidemic in the shade.