Portable Lungs
by Merry Helm
September 7, 2020 — “Not until we have removed the shadow of the Crippler from the future of every child can we furl the flags of battle and still the trumpets of attack. The fight against infantile paralysis is a fight to the finish, and the terms are unconditional surrender.”
Those were the words of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. He was referring to poliomyelitis…