Inherited and Adopted Identities
Finding the resolve to take up responsibility and fight for something you believe can come only once you first know who you are.
It’s May 29th, 1918 and a ship full of Indian soldiers is just arriving back home from their stint in World War I. A little-known fact is that almost a million Indian soldiers fought alongside the British during the war and developed a reputation as fierce fighters.
As the soldiers disembarked off the ship, something disembarked along with them: Influenza (i.e. “The Spanish Flu”).
Just a few days later, several dock workers went to the hospital with fevers, showing signs of a mysterious illness. Before anyone knew what was happening, it was too late. The virus ravaged its way through the entire country.