Letter to Editor: Military families, vets need our support more than ever

To the Editor: I never talked with my grandmother Helen about what it was like for her as an 8-year-old girl in 1918 when the Influenza pandemic roared through her town and around the world as U.S. troops were on their way overseas in World War I. That year, an unimaginable one-third of the planet’s population was infected, with more than 50 million deaths, 700,000 of whom lived in the United States. Oddly enough, Helen grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y., one of the current U.S. epicenters of COVID-19…