The Great Pandemic of Nineteen Eighteen

Historians have noted that the great pandamic of nineteen eighteen, 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. For t american people at this time, to remember the flue would be to admit to the lack of control that people had had over their own health. It would be to admit that the united states was not necessarily all powerful, but was, like everywhere else in the world, subject as victims to something beyond their control....