Remembering polio--one of the last polio victims--living in an Iron Lung

I'm 63, and just barely remember a disease that struck fear into thousands of parents. My mom had a name for it: it was the scary-sounding word "polio".

Inspiring video of a man who caught the disease at the age of 6.

Permanently and completely paralyzed from the neck down. Yet he became a prominent and successful lawyer.

Until Jonas Salk discovered the cause and a vaccine for polio in 1955, there was no prevention. Doctors were helpless.

Watching this video today, and listening to this man's story, I shake my head in disbelief of parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated. (Not only for polio, but for all the other childhood diseases out there.)

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Remembering polio--one of the last polio victims--living in an Iron Lung