September 28, 1918
The Parade That Filled Philadelphia's Graves
The Philadelphia Liberty Loan Parade and the Spanish flu on September 28, 1918
In the autumn of nineteen eighteen, two hundred thousand people crowded Broad Street to cheer the war effort — while a killer moved invisibly among them. Ten days later the city was digging mass graves, and one official's reassurances had become a death sentence.
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