re: #341 HappyWarrior

There was a family legend that my grandfather had siblings that were twins that died in the flu pandemic but my research seems to suggest that wasn’t true. He did have two stillborn siblings though. In fact all ny grandparents but my dad’s mom had a sibling die as children but my dad’s mom lost her mother at ten so she didn’t exactly skate free to tragedy. I think that’s why I laugh when people try to pass off those days as the quote on quote good old days. I mean I know children still die in childhood these days but it’s not nearly at the rate it was.

I only just thought about it, but my dad would’ve been four or five years old and my mom less than a year old when the epidemic hit…ducked a bullet there, so to speak.