In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [bell tolls] [bell tolls] many people died. We had just come from a few years before from mexico, where we were living. On account of the mexican revolution. I was about 10 years old, i was the oldest. My Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister did not get it. My two brothers were in one room sick, i was sick in the other bedroom with my mother. My poor dad and sister had to be our attendants and do what they could do for us. Influenza gave you such high fever. Mother told me that i thought her black hair was a cat and i was afraid it was the delirium from the high fever. People are left very weak. That high fever. Public schools and Public Places closed. I guess for nearly two or three weeks. I was eight years old. We lived near my dads mother. She and her daughter and two grandchildren were living close to us. Wh