A WORLD War II veteran who died from coronavirus aged 100 lost his twin brother in the 1918 Spanish Flu a century earlier. Philip Kahn, from Long Island, New York, died on April 17. He was the olde…
Kahn in military uniform during WWIIKahn lost a twin brother to the 1918 pandemic a century earlierIt is thought to have arrived in the US in the spring of 1918, when US military personnel were found to be infected.
"The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic,"Kahn, the son of Jewish-Polish immigrants, was a sergeant in the US Army Air Force during WWII, acting as an engineer and co-pilot.
The cemetery arranged for two people in the armed forces to perform a military ceremony for Kahn, and a man whose father was a Marine during WWII played the bugle at the funeral from a distance, CNN reported. "From my earliest memories, probably beginning at three or four, I can recall my father and mother discussing their grief over losing my twin to this awful disease”, he said.The cemetery arranged for two people in the armed forces to perform a military ceremonySampson Lester Friedman, Khan's friend who served with him during WWII in the Army Air Force, attended the funeral"Their conversations about him remain in my mind.
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