Survivors recall horror of flu pandemic
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061216/ap_on_he_me/pandemic_remembering1918"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061216/capt.b1de77d2409c4b94b8b36d6083d8274c.pandemic_readiness_wx305.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=lNs9C0piJEEWvKBaJQVMyA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Kenneth James, 85, gets a flu shot from nurse Lisa Gearhart in Bloomfield, N.J., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. While the flu shot protects James this year, the day was a drill for health officials, practicing how they would administer mass vaccinations if a flu pandemic ever occured. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0" /></a>AP - At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family's house, a funeral home in Washington, D.C.</p><br clear="all"/>