Along the same lines as Jans. My grandparents were effect by the influenza. My paternal grandfather lost his father and my maternal grandfather lost his mother and father and a brother and sister because of the flu. That changed each of their lives.
I don't know if my great-grandparent passed during the Pandemic of 1918/19 or not. But I imagine that pandemic being so large and widespread that it would be like a butterfly effect, an even that would effect the lives of those who live during that time and then subsequently the live of the survivors and their children etc etc.
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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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