I was intrigued with the latest article by Col. Richard Heyman regarding contagious disease, and the polio epidemic. I lived through the polio scares in the 1940s and ’50s. I was impacted with my father’s older brother having paralyzed legs, as did President Franklin Roosevelt.
My uncle contracted polio on a ranch in Montana, 16 miles off the county road. A very contagious disease. It was brought home to me while I was in the elementary school…
