Tonight on American Experience: The Polio Crusade

[ColbertWatcher]

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.

[Pavulon]

1. was a great show

worth watching. simply to see what can be done with collective will

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Good to hear.

I've got a reminder on my TV so I don't forget.

[cynatnite]

3. Do you really think GOP types would actually sit and watch this? n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

6. You're right. Limpballs must be on somewhere. n/t

[TahitiNut]

4. I was one of the kids who got vaccinated in 1954 with Salk's vaccine.

Yup. I remember those days VERY well.

[SharonAnn]

5. Yep. Me too. And the little girl down the street died of polio that year.

[SoCalDem]

10. We were Air Force Brats, and all got lined up in the school hallway

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:

[Captain Hilts]

7. My mother knew Jonas Salk well.

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.

[texanwitch]

8. I was to young to remember the big scare.

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.

[uppityperson]

9. I remember trying to sneak an extra sugar cube and getting scolded.

It seemed soooooooooooooooo unfair to me.

[FLyellowdog]

12. We were given the sugar cubes too. They were yummy.

Pink syrup on the cube. I remember it well.

[texanwitch]

13. Then it was sugar cubes.

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.

[FLyellowdog]

15. I was hoping the sugar would be mentioned in the program..

but I don't think they covered that. They surely were easier than the shots!!!!

[ColbertWatcher]

11. The first March of Dimes campaign raised $1.8 million.

Amazing.

[texanwitch]

14. I walked with my Aunt for the March of Dimes.

Having a cute little kid with you didn't hurt.

[PlanetBev]

16. My mother got polio the day I turned one year old

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.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. "I'm reminded how lucky we all were" QFT