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Category: World War I

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Words of Wisdom from the Descendant of a Survivor: ‘Stay Home and Play Your Banjo’

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest blog post by Hope O’Keeffe, an attorney in the Library’s Office of General Counsel, and an ardent supporter of the Veterans History Project. To read a previous guest post about her family’s history of proud military service, go here. This is my grandfather, John McLaughlin, quarantined during the 1918 flu …