Comments by "Shawn R" (@shawnr771) on "Century-Old Challenge Coin: The American Legion's 1927 Paris Convention" video.

  1. Very cool. One other thing the troops who were waiting to come were dealing with in 1919 was the second year of the 1918 flu pandemic. It is one of the reasons some of them had been kept in France.
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  2.  @Gordonseries385  Apparently much like today from what I have read. Start, stop, each bunch doing different things. At the time nobody knew what a virus was. They had seen bacteria in a microscope but not a virus they are too small. So nobody really knew how the disease spread. The first virus ever seen was in 1941 by a new invention called an electron microscope. Another Youtube channel TheHistoryGuy does a good episode on the 1918 Flu Pandemic.
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