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The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed more people than either of those wars and possibly more than both combined.


6 posted on 06/19/2016 5:20:32 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: Michael.SF.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed more people than either of those wars and possibly more than both combined.

I lost a Grandfather (in New York) and two Great-Uncles (in Florida) to that flu epidemic... Two more Great-Uncles to the effects of Mustard Gas in WW1 a few years later!

13 posted on 06/19/2016 6:00:30 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Michael.SF.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed more people than either of those wars and possibly more than both combined.

Coincidentally, that was the year my father was born, in Montpelier, Vermont.

15 posted on 06/19/2016 6:07:01 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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