My father had and survived the Spanish Flu. He was a grocer during the depression and saw people he knew who had no dog buy dog food to eat themselves as it was all they could afford.
My mother was born in 1905. Her father lost everything during the Great Depression. She lost one brother who was shot down flying back to England from a bomb run to Germany. Never found the plane or the bodies. Another brother was shot down flying The Hump. He and his whole crew survived. The Chinese hid them from the Japanese occupying forces and fed them. She used to tell me "Life is a struggle." and it certainly was back then. Very difficult times.
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