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2 Denver officers who died in 1918 pandemic get overdue honor
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November 6, 2021
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3:19Now PlayingThe year was 1918. An influenza pandemic spread across the country. In Denver, newspaper articles looked a lot like today’s: mask mandates, people opposing them, a vaccine to fight the virus, hospitals overrun with patients. And deaths. An estimated 2,000 people died in Denver alone.
Two of them were Denver Police officers hired on the same day in 1909, who died of the virus 12 hours apart in November of 1918: Officer Peter Walsh, a nine-year veteran of the department, and Officer Frank Potestio, a married father of seven children.
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