
04-18-2009, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Boomer
I am a front-end of the Boom Boomer.
I remember my mom getting all worried if I told her my throat was sore.
I remember not being allowed to go swimming in the public pool.
I remember pictures of kids in the iron lung.
I remember kids in my class and a good friend's mom who had polio.
I remember Jonas Salk.
I remember lining up at the school playground to get that shot.
Dimes don't get it these days. But a dollar from a whole big bunch of people would. A whole big bunch of dollars to go toward whatever that organization (the one that was so important in the lives of so many of us) is working on now.
So TH, c'mon, smile and give 'em a buck for Boomer and I will pay you back if we ever meet.
Boomer (with the long memory)
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