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By PAULA ANDERSON
I was only 7 years old in 1954 when I stood in a long line of second-graders at my elementary school in Ohio watching as those in front of me got their then-experimental polio vaccines. I still have the pin I received with the words: Polio Pioneer.
My mother was a World War II Army nurse, and she believed it was important that I join 1.8 million other American kids as test subjects to participate in the effort to eradicate what was a horrible, crippling disease. Many ended up in wheelchairs or on crutches. Some were kept alive by what was known as the âiron lung,â sort of an MRI-looking tube that encased the victim from the neck down and kept their lungs respirating. They lived in it, paralyzed, with only their heads visible.
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