Civil engineer Quote by James Rainwater

“In the United States, influenza death rates were so high that the average life span fell by twelve years, from fifty-one in 1917 to…

— Albert Marrin

In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent…

— Archie Kalokerinos

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers…

— Richard Flanagan

“The pandemic may have originated in the American military post at Fort Riley, Kansas, where a dust storm whipping about tons of incinerated manure…

— Joseph E. Persico

My dad served in World War II and died on active duty after the war.

— Tommy Tuberville

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars…

— David L. Katz

“No other disease, no war, no natural disaster, no famine comes close to the great pandemic. In the space of eighteen months in 1918–1919,…

— Albert Marrin

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

— James Nicoll

“Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918–1919, some 50 million people were killed by something far too small to even see, let alone hunt and destroy.…

— Bill Nye

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

— Harris Faulkner

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on…

— Eric Idle

My father was a polio survivor.

— Andy Kim