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America’s Mindset Recovered From Spanish Flu for One Reason: Unity

America’s Mindset Recovered From Spanish Flu for One Reason: Unity
Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, in the midst of the influenza epidemic. The flu struck while America was at war, and was transported across the Atlantic on troop ships. Circa 1918. Public Domain/MedicalMuseum.mil via Wikimedia Commons
Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—Six months after a private staggered into the Fort Riley Army base infirmary in Kansas with a raging fever, chills, and a sore throat, this city braced for the impact as the first wave of the 1918 flu pandemic made its way here.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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