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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Annb" data-source="post: 2734947" data-attributes="member: 25851">I tried that, but for some reason can't get this newish PC to take a screenshot.  It will at other times but it won't give me screenshot on my menus on this jpg.  The jpg itself is too big for the site to accept.  There's probably a way, but I just don't know what it is.My grandfather came back from WWI but he was a broken man.  He went to war even though he wasn't all that fit, was gassed and survived but then developed TB from which he suffered for the next 29 years before his death in 1945.  Not sure what the link was between being gassed and TB, unless he picked it up in a military hospital.  Oddly, although he had no symptoms, a chest X-ray showed that my father had had TB and a blood test showed that I had been exposed to it, but I never had any symptoms either.  My grandfather was the only person we knew who actually showed symptoms of the disease.  Could it have come from him and down the generations?  No way of knowing, and no real harm anyway but I wonder how much the health of those returning heros' families suffered as a result of their loved ones damaged health and injuries.  Certainly my grandmother had to work hard to support both her family  (13 of them) and her husband for those years after 1917 when he was discharged as unfit.</blockquote>

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