Polio, The March of Dimes and the reason why FDR is on the Dime

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1. You can bet kids sent dimes because they were so scared of getting polio

Most everyone knew someone who had polio in their family.

I am old enough to remember the scare of that dread disease. One of my earliest memory is being whacked upside the head when my mother saw me try to take a drink from a public drinking fountain in JC Penny's.

My mom and dad's best friend had polio. We had 2 kids in school who had polio. Swimming pools were shut in our town until I was seven or eight. No sharing drinks from the same pop bottle.

Thank gawd for FDR and the March of dimes. Thanks for the humanitarian Jonas Salk.

Gawd damn Trump and junior Kennedy for creating an environment that might bring it back