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Description
Mr. Brinson describes getting Spanish influenza and fearing for the lives of his family after sending them a letter he wrote while he was contagious with the Spanish flu. The consequences of this illness were evidenced by the deaths of eight infected soldiers in eight days.
Transcription
I got the Spanish influenza, I was time enough to catch that. I wrote a letter, had no better sense than to write a letter now and send the disease right in the family to take the whole lot of them out the one day, never give it a thought. I wrote father and told him I was in a military hospital with the flu, Spanish flu. And while I was there, there was eight soldiers buried. Eight days a soldier buried every day for eight days.