[ConorMacNessa]

My great-uncle lost his wife and all of his children to the 1918 influenza epidemic.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[VerySadAmerican]

My G-Grandfather and several of his children and other relatives died of the Spanish Flu. They’re all buried side by side. The youngest was an infant. The tombstones show they died within a few days of each other.

Years ago I was at the cemetery with my dad and made a comment about them all dying within a few days of each other and he told me they died from the flu epidemic. It was the first I had heard of it.

[yldstrk]

That must have been horrible, poor man