The Story of Naaman and Nevada - Page 38

Naaman's feeling a little down....


"Dearest Sweetheart :-
Please excuse the pencil, but I don't feel like using the pen. I slept yesterday morning till late. Got up and started to go to Hartford after my license. Before I had gone down the street a block, I fainted. I saw I couldn't make it any further, and turned into somebody's porch. It so happened that I had met the old man who lived there. They took me back home in his car. I then had chills for about three hours, then fainted again, and had more chills. Today I feel better except that I am so weak that I can't hardly stand up.
Honey, your pictures were awful sweet of you, and I have just kissed each one of them. Sorry they aren't you, and your letter makes me feel lots better. But, Dear, I feel too bad to write just when I would like to write about fifty pages. If I feel better this afternoon, I will take another crack to make up for lost time and answer your letters. With love, Naaman"

"The Fallen"

On this day, a photo, and epitaph excerpt, from
Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone.
Taken in Greenlawn Cemetery, Salem, Ma.

"God, hold your loving arms about him,
keep him in your tender care,

please make up all he had to suffer,

and everything that was unfair.

He little thought when leaving us,

he would return no more,

that he, in death, would soon so sleep,

and leave us here to mourn.

We do not know what pains he bore,

we did not see him die,

we only know he passed away,

and could not say Good-Bye." 1944

258 in 1928

"258 in 1918" - The 1918 flu pandemic (the "Spanish flu") was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the second was the 2009 flu pandemic, an outbreak of swine flu). It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin. Most victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks, which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or weakened patients.

The pandemic lasted from January 1918 to December 1920, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. Between 50 and 130 million died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. Even using the lower estimate of 50 million people, 3% of the world's population (which was 1.86 billion at the time) died of the disease. Some 500 million, or 27%, were infected.

Tissue samples from frozen victims were used to reproduce the virus for study. This research concluded, among other things, that the virus kills through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system), which perhaps explains its unusually severe nature and the concentrated age profile of its victims. The strong immune system reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths.

The first cases of influenza were registered in the continental U.S. and the rest of Europe before getting to Spain. The 1918 pandemic received its nickname "Spanish flu" because of the early perceptions of the disease's severity in Spain. Spain was a neutral country in World War I and had no censorship of news regarding the disease and its consequences. Germany, the United States, Britain and France all had media blackouts on news that might lower morale, and did not want to disclose information about disease and the number of deaths to their enemies. 

This photo was captured in Shawnee Cemetery, Plymouth, Pennsylvania.


Thanks Wiki...

Maggie R.

The Story of Naaman and Nevada - Page 37

Apparently dear Nevada is still on a rip.

"Dearest Nevada,
Have just gotten your letter this morning, and was awful sorry that it shows it misunderstanding of me as have the two previous. Honey, I hope that you have, by this time, decided that I have meant nothing impudent at any time. I would very much hate to have us busted up over business matters, as I meant every word in what I said in my letter written before I got your saying that you wouldn't help me at all. I am not indignant at any of your letters. But it does hurt to think that I am so consistently misunderstood.
My back does not hurt so badly today. But I was in bed all day yesterday with a temperature never less than 102, and from that up to a hundred and four. When it got high, I took a lot of Aconite. Today, it is back to almost normal, but I have the worse diarrhea that I ever had. I think this is the breaking up of the whole trouble really, brought on by the drive up here.
I didn't write yesterday - Sunday - as I didn't feel like it, had no one that I could trust to write for me, and it would not have gone out anyway. I got my certificate of passing this morning, and aught to get my license within a few days from the time I send it on to Hartford. I don't feel like fixing up the papers today. Please don't be mad at the shortness of this, as I will write a longer one just as soon as I feel better.
With Love,
Naaman"


Hey Doc... have Mrs. G. set you up with a new, local girl.

"The Split"

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Pittston, PA.

The Story of Naaman and Nevada - Page 36

Certain trouble in Paradise.

"Dear Nevada,
Your letter addressed to "most Exalted Critic" just about beats anything that I have ever read by you or anyone else. Can't you plainly see by the way in which that letter was written that I meant no offense?
Ye Gods Girl! If I didn't happen to know something of the terrible temper that you have, I wouldn't know where in the world I do stand. I can't always make my letters measure up to 100% of what you want them to. So, for the Love of Mike, don't raise so much Cain each time you write. First, you go to one extreme and then back to the other. I opened that letter expecting to find something to cheer me up as usual. Instead of that, nothing but contumely and doubt. And this notwithstanding the fact that it was you who said, "no more misunderstandings."
In fact, I am wondering if you really do love me as you have always claimed.
Nevada, this is the second letter that I have written today, so I am cutting it short. I do not mean one single thing as written here to offend. But this is about the second or third time you have jumped all over me for something. Why?
With Love,
Naaman"


We must remember that Naaman and Nevada have been going hot and heavy for a couple of years now. Also remember the he's in CT. and she K.C. They're reaching that breaking point.