Showing posts with label Ft. Riley Kansas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ft. Riley Kansas. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

April 25, 1943. Easter

Easter occurred on the latest possible calendar date of the year in 1943, the last time it had done so being April 25, 1886.  This will next occur on April 25, 2038, which I probably won't be around to see in my temporal form.

President Roosevelt attended Easter services at Ft. Riley, Kansas.  His wife Edith was in Los Angeles.

My parents would have attended Easter Mass, assuming they had not the night prior, and likely have enjoyed a celebratory midday Easter meal.

Polish American children in Buffalo, New York, waiting to have Easter baskets of food blessed at their local parish on Easter Saturday. The food was for Easter Sunday.


Sunday, March 4, 2018

Today In Wyoming's History: March 4, 1918 The start of the 1918 Flu Epidemic

 Soldiers with the Flu, Camp Funston, 1918.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 4:

1918 Mess Sergeant Albert Gitchell  reported sick at Sick Call on Monday, March 4, 1918. He was sent to the ward housing those suspected of carrying infectious diseases by the medical orderly at Hospital Building 91. The same orderly then saw  the next man in line, Cpl. Lee W. Drake, a truck driver assigned to the Headquarters Transportation Detachment's First Battalion. He reported with the same symptoms as Gitchell. The duty medic sent him to the  same ward. The orderly then saw Sgt. Adolph Hurby who if anything was sicker.The orderly was then alarmed and called Lt. Elizabeth Harding,  the chief nurse. By the time she arrived at the hospital two more sick soldiers were present. She called Col. Edward R. Schreiner, a  45-year-old army surgeon, awakening him from bed. Schreiner was  alarmed and was taken to the hospital in the sidecar of a motorcycle  driven by his orderly.

By noon there were 107. By the week's end, 522 were sick.