Many people have compared the coronavirus to the Spanish flu of 1918. That pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide.
Rudy Thompson, 107, was six-years-old when the Spanish flu hit his family’s home in Toledo, Oregon. His grandmother, Aasna Romtvedt, contracted influenza, developed pneumonia and died.
“I really loved my grandmother,” shared Thompson, who graduated from Oregon State University and now lives in Grass Valley, CA. “I really missed her so much.”
Not long before Thompson’s grandmother became ill, two trains rolled into town from the East Coast. They were carrying soldiers and possibly the Spanish flu. The men were with the US Army's Spruce Production Division, tasked with producing timber used to build planes during World War I.
“They had to learn logging from scratch,” Thompson said with a chuckle. “The peaceful little valley all of a sudden came to life."
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