of their profession. victor was a distinguished leader and serving as the head of the division of communicable diseases for the army. he had traveled to camp devons to investigate the disease. he was stunned. he wrote, i've never had anything so depress me as the conditions that existed at camp devons. when he wrote his memoirs, he said that he was going to avoid talking about it. he said i'm not going into the history of the influenza epidemic. it encircled the world, sparing neither soldier nor civilian and flaunting its red flag in the face of science. when he got near the conclusion of his memoir, he couldn't help himself. he said, i see hundreds of young stalwart men coming into the wards of the hospital in groups of ten or more. they're placed on cots until every bed is full and yet others crowd in. in the morning, the dead bodies are stacked about the morgue. despite his efforts to forget, vaughn remembered and remained haunted. we don't know how many medical practitioners shared this sense, but i found in a number of memoirs and diaries, people talking about it as a traumatic experience for them, something that would stay with them, but w