Aug 28, 2009

Grandpa Butler

This is John Turner Butler dressed and ready for World War I.

He never saw any action though because he contracted influenza.

He survived influenza but 251,653 other soldiers didn't.

116,708 United States soldiers died in the first world war so almost twice as many soldiers died from influenza than from the war.

So Grandpa fought and won is own war.

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