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There was a time in history when making it to the teenage years was a milestone, a time when one in three infants died before they learned to walk. In the early centuries of American life, big families were the norm because all mothers knew that they would bury at ...

A proud young military man sat in dim light, penning a letter to his family back home. It was the fall of 1918, and he had been stationed in Kentucky for his training before he would enter the battle of the Great War. Influenza raged, causing fear in his camp. ...

The fabric of American society was left in tatters in the fall of 1918, eroding our innocence and trust in one another.  The cause was a very old disease that came each year–influenza.  It started with the soldier fighting the Great War, but it soon attacked the citizen on the ...