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The Great Pandamic of 1918
Historians have noted that the great pandamic of 19 18, even though it cost so many lives, was sort of quickly forgotten after the fact. H l. Mankin wrote that the human mind always tries to expunge the intolerable from memory, just as it tries to conceal it while current. You describe songs that have been sung about the flue, especially in the tradition of the blues? Yes, one of the rare places that we do see the story of the flue told are in blue's lyrics. And i think it's because this was actually a genre that had space in it for the kind of message that this was a horrific event through which people had suffered and