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Mon Feb-02-09 11:03 PM
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Tonight on American Experience: The Polio Crusade |
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Sorry East Coasters, but it's probably already over.
For West Coasters: it's scheduled to start at 9 pm
This documentary might help GOPers understand why FDR is on the dime and why their Saint Reagan shouldn't be.
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:05 PM
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worth watching. simply to see what can be done with collective will
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:09 PM
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I've got a reminder on my TV so I don't forget.
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:10 PM
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3. Do you really think GOP types would actually sit and watch this? n/t |
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:26 PM
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6. You're right. Limpballs must be on somewhere. n/t |
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:13 PM
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4. I was one of the kids who got vaccinated in 1954 with Salk's vaccine. |
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Yup. I remember those days VERY well.
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:14 PM
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5. Yep. Me too. And the little girl down the street died of polio that year. |
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Tue Feb-03-09 12:09 AM
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10. We were Air Force Brats, and all got lined up in the school hallway |
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Edited on Tue Feb-03-09 01:01 AM by SoCalDem
got the the shot AND sugar cube later on.. and every other vaccine they came up with..
I even got a vaccine for Dengue Fever, although documentation today says there IS no vaccine :rofl:
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:26 PM
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7. My mother knew Jonas Salk well. |
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When FDR boarded the battleship IOWA, my uncle, a radioman on board, was stunned by how completely crippled he was. Took him the ship's newspaper every day.
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Mon Feb-02-09 11:34 PM
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8. I was to young to remember the big scare. |
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I do remember going to a church and getting shots or taking sugar cubes.
I also remember kids screaming and yelling getting their shots.
I was one of them.
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Tue Feb-03-09 12:04 AM
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9. I remember trying to sneak an extra sugar cube and getting scolded. |
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It seemed soooooooooooooooo unfair to me.
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Tue Feb-03-09 12:44 AM
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12. We were given the sugar cubes too. They were yummy. |
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Pink syrup on the cube. I remember it well.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:03 AM
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13. Then it was sugar cubes. |
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I do remember very well getting the small pox thing on my arm.
Talk about kids screaming and yelling.
I would have hated to be the poor soul who had to listen tot that all day.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:11 AM
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15. I was hoping the sugar would be mentioned in the program.. |
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but I don't think they covered that. They surely were easier than the shots!!!!
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Tue Feb-03-09 12:14 AM
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11. The first March of Dimes campaign raised $1.8 million. |
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:05 AM
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14. I walked with my Aunt for the March of Dimes. |
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Having a cute little kid with you didn't hurt.
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Tue Feb-03-09 02:04 AM
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16. My mother got polio the day I turned one year old |
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November 17, 1951, Van Nuys, CA. The house was quarantined. My mother was in the hospital for 14 months, but she was considered a miracle cure, as she was carried into the hospital and came out walking. My father and sister got the fever, but were not paralyzed. Somehow, I escaped it completely.
After seeing the documentary on PBS, I'm reminded how lucky we all were.
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Tue Feb-03-09 06:42 PM
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17. "I'm reminded how lucky we all were" QFT |
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