Below you can see celebrities like Grace Kelly helping with the effort.
Founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as the National Center for Infantile Paralysis, it became known as the “March of Dimes” when the call went out for regular Americans to simply give a dime – ten cents – to fund research into a cure for polio. The call came from entertainer Eddie Cantor who mused, “Nearly everyone can send in a dime, or several dimes. However, it takes only ten dimes to make a dollar and if a million people send only one dime, the total will be $100,000.” The dimes poured in and by 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine. Eventually the disease was licked and the March of Dimes turned its focus to birth defects. –www.deborahnorville.com
I Don't Get It 
Sadly the disease is making a comeback in parts of the world. Part of the reason is that too many adults are traveling the world without being vaccinated.
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It’s crazy. Just crazy.
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It is also sad that we have parents and politicians who deny the science that vaccinations are safe and safeguard their children.
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My husband’s aunt had polio and has been in a wheelchair for years and homebound, but her sister was vaccinated and is healthy, so we have a visible reminder of it still today. Young people don’t understand how terrifying it was in the early 50s.
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I remember standing in line in elementary school to take our vaccine sugar cube. Love to story behind the name March of Dimes.
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Vaccine sugar cubes??
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The sugar cubes had a colored center and were way better than those lovely 4 needle shots for the small pox vaccine.
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Why aren’t they all like that now??
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No profit in it for the big “pharmas”.
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Word.
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Word on the streets is that the link between vaccines and autism has been officially severed. That’s that for that.
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Yep.
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Yep– still got the hole in my arm from that shot. 😀
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You might not have been so muscle-legged without it!
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😀 No argument there !!!!!!! 😀
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Polio was a huge scare in the days of my youth. Parents would warn of being placed in “the iron lung” which was a horrifying prospect. I can recall a couple kids who contracted polio and became crippled. When I hear idiots prattling on against vaccines like this I wonder if their parents dropped them on the heads as children or perhaps forcibly swung them into walls.
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Agreed. My husband’s aunt has one normal leg and one spindly toothpick polio leg all these 60 yrs later. The iron lung sounds terrifying. Didn’t people think they could contract it in public pools?
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Yep, that was one of the main vectors according to every parent and consequently there were times as kids we were kept away from normal activities.
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