Front Porches to Front Lines

World War One and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Two events which will always

define the 1910s, a decade which saw great political and social change; a long list of

disasters and a realignment of the global stage, something which would help define many

of the subsequent events of the twentieth century. When the United States declared war on

Germany on April 2, 1917, it was just the first of two major calamities which would in some

way impact just about every American man, woman and child during th...