Before the Polio Vaccine, Scenes Like This Were Common. We Don't Need a Replay

We must prevent a return to the bad old days of crippled children and iron lungs.

My friend Terry Jackson contracted polio when he was a small child. While he didn’t end up spending his life in an iron lung like thousands of other kids, the disease left him deformed, and he spent his years on crutches.

As horrible as that was, it could have been worse.