MetaFilter posts tagged with 1918

God Bless Them.

hadjiboy — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:10:33 -0800

Question... What has killed more people than have died in the First World War... No, not another War, But a Pandemic, The Influenza Pandemic of 1918. It spread to nearly every Part of the World, and it is the worst Epidemic that the United States has ever known. Here are some of the stories of those who were lucky enough to Survive it, and here is an account of the Effect it had on London. (Posted before on Mefi, Here, and Here.)

Party like it's 1918

Vidiot — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:50:43 -0800

The curse, reversed.

The Aftermath of the War to End All Wars

ewagoner — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:00:14 -0800

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 may have brought an end to the Great War, but the ending was merely the beginning of the aftermath.

The aftermath years were a time of paradox, where the men who returned from the horrors of the trenches wanted to forget, and where those who had stayed behind, and had lost husbands and brothers, and sons and fathers were equally determined never to forget. It was a time where remembrance of the dead became a way of life, and where it was somehow assumed that all the best, and the finest young men of a generation had died. The other side of that assumption was that those who had survived were somehow less than those who had died. . . The exploration of that time, that world, is the theme of these pages.