Abstract
It was the robber of hope for a generation, several generations of children. There were diseases ... that were more devastating, affecting more children, more deadly than polio. But polio left kids crippled, and that was an image that this big strong postwar country simply couldn't abide. We had children lining up in wheelchairs, in iron lungs, whose very vitality [was drained] and everyone's hope for their future was.. .[shaken] right at the most critical time in their childhoods. And that's why polio seemed like such a horrible scourge, far more so than any number of other diseases or accidents that, any way you want to measure it, were more deadly and were fatal. And the image of a child in an iron lung is about as tearful and wrenching as we could imagine at that time, and any time certainly in this century. There were many other diseases that were bad for America, but polio broke its heart. ?Mark Sauer, polio survivor (i)
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