But I do want to read this book–about the great flu pandemic.
My mother’s family was hit hard by it — My grandfather lost both of his parents and most of his family, and so did my grandmother.
Oddly my father’s family didn’t seem to be affected.
It’s something that affected her family deeply and something they talked about when I was young. Primarly because I had “great grandparents” who really weren’t. They were very young to be great grandparents, so the situation was explained in public a lot. They couldn’t have children, were related to my grandfather — I think my great grandfather was a younger brother of his father.
’The Great Influenza’ and ’Microbial Threats to Health’: Virus Alert