The WWI-spawned influenza pandemic killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and 500,000-675,000 in the US. My grandparents, great-grandmother, and mother and aunts and uncles to be, were all quarantined. A little boy who would have been my uncle died of it. Many families had such stories, though as Burt Blumert used to point out, the horror has been largely erased from the public mind.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.