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Looking Back At:
Spanish Flu Didn’t Play Fair
They called it Spanish Flu although no one knew for sure where it originated. It first appeared on military bases in the spring of 1918. It spread wildly in barracks packed with soldiers, cruelly killing brave young men who had miraculously survived trench warfare in Europe. It arrived unseen at military facilities in San Antonio and made the short jump to the Texas Hill Country that fall. When it first appeared in Gillespie County just about everyone mistook it for seasonal flu, but this s ...
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