re: #340 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

My grandmother, who was 11 at the time and lived till 2013, had vivid memories of the 1918 flu. Her school was closed but not soon enough. Her teacher and 6 of her 26 classmates died. She did not contract the flu but her younger brother did. He survived but was permanently weakened and died in 1938 at age 27. She always said it was the worst public event of her lifetime, which encompassed both world wars and the Great Depression.

My grandpa died in the Spanish Flu pandemic while my grandma was pregnant with my dad.