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This past year the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of all the world, and to us especially a difficult, different era in our lives. Throughout this situation, we hear comparisons to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 that has been estimated to have killed between 20 million and 50 million people. On a personal note, although I’m sure it was fresh in their minds, my sister was born in 1918 in West Aliquippa, but from my earliest memories, I don’t recall hearing any real discussions about that terrible time. The Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation, with headquarters at the Vicary House in Freedom, publishes a quarterly magazine called Milestones, with interesting historical features. In its summer 2020 issue, editor Roger Applegate wrote a story titled “A Dance of Death with the Spanish Lady. He also noted the present COVID-19 pandemic being compared to the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 and that he would explore what happened and ....