So, if you have one of these on your upper arm or thigh,

[MineralMan]

it's OK, Boomer! You're part of a generation that was alive before smallpox was eradicated through universal vaccination. Vaccination against smallpox ended in the US in 1972.

Take that, anti-vaxxers!

[OneBlueDotBama]

1. Some on the thigh n/t

[MineralMan]

10. I edited the post title to include that. Thanks!

[OneBlueDotBama]

18. My dear wife

Is thrilled to know, she's a fancy gal....

[rzemanfl]

2. I posted in another thread that the fancy girls' doctors did them on their upper

thigh. I was privileged to look at a few of those.

[MineralMan]

5. Lucky you, eh?

All the girls I knew had the scar on their upper arm.

[George II]

67. Some also got the shot in their butts, too. When my sister was born in 1957 our parents debated....

...whether to get her vaccinated in the butt or the arm. Back then children were asked to show the scar when they entered school to prove they were vaccinated. So our parents decided to have the shot in her arm to avoid embarrassment.

Not all children got those scars - I didn't.

[rzemanfl]

8. Indeed. It was long ago. n/t

[MuseRider]

34. I was told they were less effective

when given on the thigh. I don't know why. Mine is on my thigh because it was that or no vaccination because my father thought those scars were ugly and no man would ever marry me.........................I KNOW! Disgusting. It would be better that I get small pox than scar my chances to be married. Lordy how I ever got out of that house fast enough.

[Mariana]

116. That's funny, my husband and I have matching scars.

I remember when my daughter noticed them, and realized she doesn't have one.

Actual smallpox scars are horrible.

[Mossfern]

3. Mine seems to have disappeared.

[MineralMan]

7. They varied a lot on different people.

Some had a severe reaction and have a prominent scar. Mine looks a lot like the one in that photo.

[Mossfern]

12. I never had chicken pox either.

But I did have mumps and measles and rubella.
Our parents used to expose us deliberately - mumps for boys, German measles for girls - not so much for regular measles.

[MineralMan]

15. I had everything except whooping cough, as far as I know.

They had the diphtheria shot when I was very young, so there's another childhood disease that has been eradicated.

Vaccination saves lives!

[Butterflylady]

91. Isn't there a shot now for whooping cough

I had to get some type of shot before going to visit my son who had a brand new baby. The shot had something to do with whooping cough they told me. It was about 8 years ago so I don't remember.

[MineralMan]

92. Yes, there is.

It's part of the DPT vaccination. (Diphtheria, Pertussis (whooping cough), and Tetanus)

There wasn't back when I was a child, though.

[Backseat Driver]

145. My Dad actually had diptheria as a kid in Holyoke, Massachusetts;

the story is that the family was saved by eating a batch of potatoes sprayed with DDT.

[kimbutgar]

28. I had measles, mumps and chicken pox

But don’t think I had a small pox shot.

[DarleenMB]

38. It wasn't a "shot"

the vaccine was in a small ampoule and they broke off the end and "stabbed" you several times. Mine, and those of everyone I know, were circular. And mine has disappeared as well. Strange because all of my other scars are there for life.

[MicaelS]

47. I got mine via a 6 needle gun.

Made a neat pattern on my arm. Had a nice big scab, too.

[tblue37]

65. So did I. nt

[Wounded Bear]

50. Mine is virtually gone, too...

still a light shadow scar, though. At least I think that is it.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. Got one!

[Walleye]

6. Got mine

[Leith]

9. I have that mark on my upper arm

and proud of it. Also, I don't have and never did have polio. Take that, anti-vaxxers!

[MineralMan]

11. The anti-vaxxers are mostly too young to remember

either Smallpox or Polio vaccines. That's part of the problem.

[Arkansas Granny]

56. I remember polio and went to school with some kids that survived the disease.

During outbreaks in the summertime, swimming pools would close and parents were very wary about kids playing together. The pictures of kids in iron lungs is something that stays with you for a long time.

[Hestia]

144. Post-Polio Syndrome is pretty horrible too. It seems to come back when the person is over 60 +/-

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Post-Polio-Syndrome-Fact-Sheet#:~:text=Post%2Dpolio%20syndrome%20(PPS),affected%20by%20the%20polio%20infection.

[Butterflylady]

93. Too bad there's not a shot for

Whatever is wrong with them.

I'm being kind here. I was going to post another word.

[MineralMan]

95. Yes.

[csziggy]

13. Hunh - I never had one, though I am a Boomer

My original vaccination never really "took" and I never got the scar. I didn't realize that was considered a problem until I was getting boosters and stuff for possibly traveling abroad my first year of college. Since I didn't have the scar as proof of my original vaccination, I had to do it again. By then, it was and injection that didn't leave that distinctive scar.

[phylny]

87. My original vaccination never "took," either and they did it again a few years

later. I did get it in my left arm, but also did not have a scar.

[csziggy]

88. No body ever checked until I was in college

I guess either it took enough to give me immunity or I was very lucky. By the time I started school, the big polio scare was over so I guess I was lucky since it was in our neighborhood.

[hvn_nbr_2]

130. Mine never took either.

They tried six times and none of them took. So I got some kind of waiver to start first grade.

[yonder]

14. I haven't noticed mine in years.

[Butterflylady]

96. Oh my!!! I forgot it was even there.

[SunSeeker]

16. I got it, upper left arm.

[True Blue American]

62. Same here

A white hole.

[SunSeeker]

79. Mine used to be a very noticeable white depression when I was a skinny teen.

It's faded quite a bit and, um, filled in as I've aged and gained weight .

[True Blue American]

100. Mine doesn't

Look as bad as it used to!

[roamer65]

76. Ditto.

About the size of a dime.

Leading edge of GenX.

[CaptYossarian]

17. Everyone I knew in grade school had their arm done.

[JCMach1]

19. Gen X but have one I covered with a tattoo

How Gen X is that? Lol

[MineralMan]

20. LOL!

[Arkansas Granny]

21. I have one of those.

[MineralMan]

23. It's a mark of distinction.

In the early days of smallpox vaccinations, there was a huge uproar from people who were opposed to it. Books were written against vaccination. There have always been stupid anti-vaxxers around, I guess.

[Wounded Bear]

51. Well, it is the devil's work, you know...

God put them diseases out there to punish sinners, you know.

[Arkansas Granny]

121. Well, I got punished with measles, German measles and mumps.

I wasn't bad enough to get chicken pox and I got vaccinated for the rest of them.

[Arkansas Granny]

52. I don't know about others here, but when my vaccination was done they used a little fork-like

instrument that scratched the skin until it drew blood and then applied some of the vaccine and put a bandaid over it. It made for a really ugly scab that took several days to fall off. I went to a very small rural (one room) school. Everyone got vaccinated.

[True Blue American]

101. The tattoo

Or the scar?

[Squinch]

22. I got it before I can remember but I often think it must have hurt like

a son of a bitch to leave a scar like that.

[MineralMan]

27. I don't remember mine, either, but I remember my younger brother's.

The live vaccinia virus that is used to vaccinate people causes a boil-like pustule where it is injected. The pustule is bad enough to leave a scar, which we all seem to have. We don't remember it because we were too young, but it is a nasty little sore. It's worse for some people than others, and can leave a very visible scar on some people.

[Squinch]

32. Mine is pretty big, but I am very freckled so it camouflages it.

[Butterflylady]

98. Lol

[Squinch]

114. Lol. LOTS of them.

[Greybnk48]

24. Got one when I was 5 years old in PA.

Then, for some reason, when we moved to Wisconsin, they vaccinated our entire high school in 1964 or 1965, whether you had been vaccinated before or not.

I can't find either one, but my doc can find it.

[MineralMan]

25. The word "Vaccination" comes from the virus "vaccinia."

The word "vaccination" comes from the smallpox vaccination, which was actually an deliberate infection of vaccinia, the virus that causes cowpox. It happened because Edward Jenner noticed that 18th century milkmaids didn't contract smallpox, because they had caught cowpox from the cows they milked. So, he tested the idea of infecting people with cowpox, which is a mild infection in humans. It worked, and there you have it. The vaccination you got was a live cowpox virus, which caused a pustule on your upper arm that ended up causing a scar.

[luvs2sing]

26. Nope, never had one.

I developed severe eczema when I was an infant. Our doctor refused to immunize me. Apparently there is a risk for people with eczema to develop a serious condition. He said my chances of dying or losing an arm because of the vaccine were much higher than the chances of getting smallpox. I remember having to get a letter from the doctor at the beginning of every school year stating this.

I remember the polio vaccine, both liquid and injection, measles, and German measles. I had mumps three times..once on both sides, then once on each side. I never had chicken pox even though I was exposed several times. When that vaccination became available, I got it.

[peggysue2]

29. I have a big ole scar on my upper thigh

I recall my mother insisting on the thigh shot because of the scarring, easier to hide. And yes, it's still there. Large and white against my pinky-pink skin.

[True Blue American]

103. Will not tan,either!

[peggysue2]

108. No, it doesn't

Just makes it all the more obvious. Not that I tan very well anyway. I'm more prone to sunburn/sun-poisoning and massive peeling. I'm paying for the sins of my youth and all those summers spent at the Jersey shore. Just went through my first round of skin cancer and reconstruction.

Guess Coppertone back in the day wasn't all that good.

Smelled good though.

[MontanaMama]

30. I've got one.

I was born in 1964 so I guess I'm either the last of the Boomers or beginning of the Gen Xers.

[CottonBear]

37. Like me & Barack Obama, you're Generation Jones!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Generation Jones
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Generation Jones is the social cohort[1][2] of the latter half of the Baby boomers to the first years of Generation X.[3][4][5][6] The term was first coined by the cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S.[7] who came of age during the oil crisis, stagflation, and the Carter presidency, rather than during the 1960s, but slightly before Gen X.[8] Other sources place the starting point at 1956[9] or 1957.[10][11] Unlike baby boomers, most of Generation Jones did not grow up with World War II veterans as fathers, and for them there was no compulsory military service and no defining political cause, as opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War had been for the older boomers.[12] Also, by 1955, a majority of U.S. households had at least one television set,[13] and so unlike Baby boomers born in the 1940s, many members of Generation Jones have never lived a world without television – similar to how many members of Generation Z (1997–2012) have never lived in a world without personal computers or the internet, which a majority of U.S. households had by 2000 and 2001 respectively.[14] Unlike Generation X (1965–1980), Generation Jones was born before most of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.[15][16][17][18] It is believed[by whom?] that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days of the past.

The generation is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older brothers and sisters in the earlier portion of the baby boomer population had come immediately preceding them; thus, many complain that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of freedom and affluence granted to older boomers but denied to them.[19]

The term has enjoyed some currency in political and cultural commentary, including during the 2008 United States presidential election, where Barack Obama (born 1961) and Sarah Palin (born 1964) were on the presidential tickets.

[GreenEyedLefty]

60. My hubby was born in the early 60s

and I consider him a Gen X who happens to remember the moon landing. I'd never heard of Generation Jones. Thanks for sharing!

[CottonBear]

104. I watched (and remember) the moon landing. I was a little kid.

I remember watching Nixon resign on live TV.

I watched the nightly news with Walter Cronkite reporting on the war in Vietnam.

I watched Laugh In, Ed Sullivan, Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, all of Normon Lear’s TV shows, M*A*S*H, the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family, among others.

I saw the original Star Trek in mid-1970s reruns.

I saw Star Wars in the movie theater!

[MontanaMama]

70. Generation Jones!

I never knew!! I like and identify with all of it except the Sarah Palin part.

ETA: I can remember my dad worrying out loud that I might be part of a generation that wouldn't do better than their parents due to many factors, a few of which are cited in the article you posted. This was well before Generation Jones was coined. Turned out I did okay after all... but my dad was so wise...he was my hero.

[CottonBear]

99. Now you know!

I feel the same way about Alaska Barbie.
Fortunately, though, Michelle and Barack Obama more than make up for her being included in our generation.

[GoCubsGo]

127. They also call us "Crackers".

I actually heard that term before I heard "Generation Jones" being used.

[Maeve]

122. The things you learn on this board...

And my maiden name was Jones!

[CottonBear]

124. See! You learned something new today!

I love DU! I always learn something (usually many things) new every day!

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. Not just Boomers! Gen-X here with one of those.

Military personnel and their dependents deployed overseas received the vaccine past 1972. Not sure when they stopped, but I got it in 1974. When we rotated back state side, I remember kids in gym class fascinated by it.

[Skittles]

132. I remember getting lots of vaccinations to go overseas as a chile

my arms would be sore!

[OhZone]

33. Thank you, boomers!

[benld74]

35. Had mine surically removed after that ONE episode of The X-Files,,,,,,

Seems a very small delicate wire, of unknown composition ALSO popped up during the procedure,,,

Strange men in dark clothes and dark overcoats have appear on my street,,,,,,

[iscooterliberally]

36. I don't have that scar, but I did get the vaccine.

Although I was too young to remember, the doctor told my mom that about 1 in 2 million people would come down with cow-pox as a result of the vaccine. Guess who has two thumbs and got cow-pox? This guy! My mom told me I developed a huge lump under one of my arms that looked like I was growing an udder .

[MineralMan]

40. Too bad the vaccine wasn't a lottery ticket, eh?

Actually, everyone who got the smallpox vaccine and it worked, got a mild case of cowpox. That's what immunizes you against smallpox. For most people it's just a pustule at the site of the vaccination that soon drains, but leaves that characteristic scar. You got a more serious case of cowpox, but survived it, so you certainly got the immunity.

[iscooterliberally]

49. Oh I wish it were a lottery ticket. I could use the money.

I'm not much of a gambler though. Besides if I had won the lottery as an infant the money would probably be spent by now. I'd rather be immune to small pox. Money problems can be solved much easier than health problems that's for sure.

[rickyhall]

39. Mine disappeared.

FYI: I had strep twice, measles, mumps & chicken pox. Haven't been sick in decades.

[MineralMan]

42. For some people, the scar was always almost invisible.

It fades away, in those cases, through normal skin cell replacement. Most, however, get a more serious pustule from the vaccination that leaves a permanent scar. Mine is hard to find, but it's there.

[cannabis_flower]

43. I also

Haven't been able to find mine in years. Not sure if the scar just disappeared or if I stretched it out so much it isn't visible or what.

[Heartstrings]

41. Mom had mine put on my thigh

So as not to be seen “in formal wear”...

[MineralMan]

44. Well, that was thoughtful of her.

Really. On the other hand, I don't remember finding those scars on girls I dated to be any sort of problem. We all had them, so...they're sort of like nipples. Everyone has at least two. Some have an extra one or two, but I didn't know that until I was 17, though. Navels, too.

[rzemanfl]

80. Some were more fun to find than others. n/t

[TNNurse]

45. Mine has freckles over and around it so it is barely noticeable.

Anybody read "Outlander"?? Had not thought of scar for years.

[Mosby]

46. I don't have a scar

My dr told me and my sisters that if we scratched it we would get a scar. I didn't scratch mine but it itched like crazy.

[MineralMan]

48. You must have excellent self-control.

I'm sure I scratched mine.

One of my earliest memories is of having chickenpox and my mother making little mittens of rabbit fur for our little hands so we couldn't scratch. I actually found them in a box a few years ago in my parent's house. At the time, my parents raised rabbits to eat and sell, so she had the materials on hand. My dad could tan leather, so I suppose he did that to rabbit pelts, too.

[Mosby]

131. I did at the time. Not as much now, lol.

[Aristus]

53. Best pop cultural mention of smallpox ever:

[MineralMan]

84. Yes. That's very good!

[Dem2theMax]

54. Boomer here. Upper left arm.

I guess it must have been something they did back in the olden days.

[abqtommy]

55. When I was 5 and we were leaving West Pakistan my whole family went for a round of shots

and vaccinations. The doctor used a piece of broken glass that had been sitting in a sterile solution to vaccinate me. I thought it was cool and thrifty too. I approve of vaccinations and I hope to see a
national law that puts the antis in their place.

[GreenEyedLefty]

57. I was born in 71 and do not have one of those.

My mom has one, though. A very distinct one.

Thank you to everyone who was vaccinated against smallpox. You made it so my generation and the ones to follow did not need it, too.

[roamer65]

78. We should have continued smallpox vaccination.

Not doing so makes smallpox a viable bio weapon.

[dawn5651]

58. anti vaxxers aren't dealing with a full deck

[MineralMan]

61. Indeed...

[gopiscrap]

59. I have that scar on my arm

[MineralMan]

63. This is the weirdest trending DU thread I've ever written.

LOL!

[Skittles]

133. I just checked my arm

yup! I can still see it!

[dhol82]

64. I have two large ones on my right arm and another on my left.

I was born in a DP camp in Germany and I guess they were very thorough about making sure the scarification was obvious.
We emigrated here in 1950 and I still have the little yellow booklet with the vaccinations noted.

As a side note, when I visited Pakistan a couple of years ago, I had to get a polio vaccination to go back into China. Got a new little yellow booklet. No new scar, though.

[MineralMan]

69. When I was in the USAF, I got so many shots!

Then, when I was assigned to a base in Turkey, I got some more. Typhoid, Typhus, Cholera and even a Plague vaccination. All at once. Hurt like the dickens for about a week. I found out later that the plague and cholera vaccinations were experimental, so I guess I was an involuntary test subject.

[dhol82]

112. Yeah, it seems like the military has been experimenting for quite time.

[burrowowl]

117. Typhus

little needle no pain until 10 seconds later it felt like your arm would burn off.

[jberryhill]

66. Human test

We called it the "human test".

Only humans had them.

You could tell the aliens, because they didn't have them.

[MineralMan]

73. I thought that was navels.

I read several years ago that some body modification folks have their navels surgically removed. Now, that's dedication. I also remember when girls who showed their navels in a two piece swimsuit were not "nice girls." Me? I thought they were very nice, indeed. My HS girlfriend, back in 1962, had a bikini that definitely showed her navel. Cute, and very nice.

[TalenaGor]

68. OMG I have that lol but I'm gen x!!!

Born 1968!

[trackfan]

71. Mine was always very hard to see.

I can't even find it now, and am not even sure which arm it was on. My mother's, however, looked like someone took a bottle cap and gouged her with it.

[Shrike47]

72. I have the scar. In my youth, I actually knew a young man who had had smallpox.

Now, his scars were scars!

[MineralMan]

74. I've met a few people in my lifetime who had smallpox scars.

They were all much older than me.

[Danmel]

75. I have one

I had the mumps and chickenpox as a child but got the measles and german measles vaccines, along with polio of course.
I remember the health department ads for the rubella vaccine. They were animated and featured a little girl carrying a "rubella umbrella. " I must have been 8 or 9 years old.
Now I work for a state elected official and spend a considerable amount of time fending off anti vaxxers.

[hunter]

77. Mine is lost among the other scars, especially those caused by overexposure to the sun...

... and a couple of surgeries to remove mutations caused by such, the kind where you wait for the biopsy results in quiet terror.

In the bad old days people got tans, people thought the sun was good for kids. I was more prone to severe sunburns and freckles.

I also have a lot of Chicken Pox scars. I got chicken pox bad, and everywhere. I got the mumps to.

My kids came down with chicken pox just a few weeks before the vaccine was released, unlucky for them, almost as much as it was for me. Believe me, my wife and I shared their suffering.

I'm glad they live in a world where smallpox doesn't exist and vaccines protect them from other awful diseases. They also know that sunshine can be dangerous.

[Captain Zero]

81. If I recall correctly, Jonas Salk took no money because

He thought it was that important that it got out there and was affordable.

While today, Trump officials are claiming there needs to be delays to get investors before developing it, and already making statements it may not be affordable for everyone. Assholes.

[MineralMan]

82. Yes. And nobody paid for the polio vaccination, either.

The government covered the cost of immunizing all children.

Socialized medical care at work, even in the 1950s, when that started.

[mainstreetonce]

83. My grandmother in law had six children

The vaccination cost $3.00 and she was only paying once.
So the oldest was vaccinated.She put a needle in the scar and vaccinated the other children herself.

[MineralMan]

85. Wow! A very practical woman...

Needs must...

[sdfernando]

86. I don't have one any longer

I did when I was younger. It faded over the years and is totally gone now.

[11 Bravo]

89. It's still barely visible on my right upper arm.

[meow2u3]

90. Mine's on my left upper arm

[pink-o]

94. For some reason, the Doc stuck mine right near my arm pit

He thought it would be less conspicuous, but the scar is huge and really puckered. Doesn't matter: I never got bloody small pox. AND....I've had vaxxes against Hep A and C, Shingles, Pneumonia and whatever else they wanna give this old Boomer to help her live a long and healthy life! Whatever the oppo of an anti-vaxxer is---that's me!!

[MineralMan]

97. Yup. If the doctor tells me I need a shot, I say, "OK."

Last thing I want to die of is some preventable disease.

[solara]

102. Used to have a scar from the small pox vaccine

but it disappeared. I remember the polio vaccine was a blue liquid on a sugar cube (perhaps a sign of things to come haha)..I think I got shots for measles and mumps but, maybe not since I still got them.. and chicken pox.

I don't get the whole anti-vaccine thing.. seems awfully dangerous to me. I remember, years ago, they gave my newborn son all the shots we've been talking about except maybe small pox.

[Old Terp]

105. My college roommate had polio as a child.

She had those metal canes and was able to move around rather fast. She was a beautiful person.

[JustAnotherGen]

106. That's right

I was born in 1973 in Weisbaden West Germany at a military base. I have it -but really . . . nobody I went to school with in my grade -had one. Only the Officers' brats born abroad.

Generation X-er - X Marks the Spot!

[El Supremo]

107. I had two.

But the second one didn't take.

I also had the Saulk and Sabin polio vaccinations. The first on was a shot and the second was a sugar cube. We didn't have Chicken Pox vaccines and I caught it. I don't remember about mumps, measles but I get a TDAP every ten years.

[Greybnk48]

137. I had both Salk and Sabin vaccine,

and had two small pox vaccines on my left arm, about 10 years apart.

[IronLionZion]

109. Anti-vaxxers making diseases great again

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

110. Mine is on my upper back because my mom didn't want me to have scarring on my arms.

My mother inherited the tendency to form keloids from her father but luckily, I didn't. BTW, I'm a member of the "BABY BUST" generation.

[Glorfindel]

111. I have one on each arm

Got the one on the left arm when I was a kid. Got the other after I was drafted in 1966. The army didn't give a shit if I already had one. I have also had the Salk polio vaccine and the Sabin polio vaccine twice. I'll probably live forever! I actually remember when there was a smallpox scare in the county I live in. It was in (I think) 1953. The elderly neighbor lady down the road hung a bag of asafoetida around her neck and swore it would keep the smallpox away from her. It smelled horrible, but she didn't catch smallpox!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

113. One on my upper left arm......

Got it in 1957.

[mwooldri]

115. I have a similar mark on my upper arm.

Though it's an outside and not an innie and it was from the BCG (tuberculosis vaccine) injection we all got during the first year of secondary school.

[badhair77]

118. Had the vaccine. Scar is faint now.

It was a right of passage to get to first grade, just like the older kids did. I vaguely remember having a clear plastic shield over it for the first few days to protect the area.

[Susan Calvin]

119. I know I have one.

I have a very clear memory of getting it too. But now I can't find it. Boo.

[Cirque du So-What]

120. I got one

but couldn’t find it on my upper arm when I wanted to show it to a grandchild. I know it was there for a long time.

[Maeve]

123. In the "Gor" sci fi world, it was proof that someone came from Earth

And was therefore (usually) a slave. (What can I say, I read some weird books back in the day )

[Hekate]

125. Mine, on my upper left arm, is the size of a dime. My mom's was larger than a quarter...

...but hers was placed on her inner thigh. When I was at university, smallpox was still endemic in some parts of the planet -- one of our foreign exchange students, scarred all over -- was a survivor. Young women at my university who came from ethnicities prone to keloid scars frequently had a rectangle of 4 prominently raised scars on their upper arm, visible sign of their protection.

It felt creepy when my own toddlers didn't get the vaccine. Now (to my eternal horror) my 44 year old daughter is an anti-vaxxer and her 3 sons are unvaccinated.

[gademocrat7]

126. Mine is on my left arm.

[GoCubsGo]

129. I have one of the rare thigh scars.

Same general shape, but mine is raised. I scar fairly easily. Might as well have put it on my left arm. My mole would have some company.

[mopinko]

134. it was such an interesting scab.

yeah, i was that kid.

[MineralMan]

141. Oh, we all were!

That sucker itched, too.

[Recursion]

135. Lots of Xer and Millennial veterans have those too

I got my smallpox and anthrax vaccine on the same day back in 2003. Same arm. Holy crap that hurt.

The corpsman giving the injections kept saying "don't worry about the rumors. it's perfectly safe. Umm... but don't handle food for the next 48 hours."

[Polybius]

136. My sister is a Boomer and has it

Not me though, I'm an Xer.

[Demovictory9]

138. i have it

[Flaleftist]

139. How did getting a vaccine cause that?

[MineralMan]

140. The smallpox vaccine uses a live virus for cowpox.

It was done by putting a liquid containing the live cowpox virus on your skin, then piercing or scratching the skin to cause an actual infection. You developed a boil-like pustule from the cowpox virus. It itched, and most children scratched it, making the infection worse. In any case, the pustule was enough to cause that characteristic scar.

[Flaleftist]

146. Interesting. Thank you.

[wnylib]

142. Mine faded away but I still have

two similar looking scars on my face, one at the tip of my nose, and the other at one end of an eyebrow. They are from chicken pox because there was no vaccine for it back then. Neither scar is very noticeable, fortunately.

[Sloumeau]

143. If there were a vaccine for the coronavirus right now...

I wonder how many anti-vaxxers would suddenly forget that they were anti-vaxxers.