[AT] OT Draft Exemption Exam

[Phil Auten]

I remember my mom telling us kids not to get overheated during the 
summer back then. As I recall, that was something that was thought to 
contribute to contracting polio. I was 6 in '53 and I remember getting 
the first polio shots and a couple of years later the first pills while 
in school (not in '53, a couple of years later). Fortunately, I do not 
remember anyone I went to school with contracting polio.

Phil in TX


On 1/20/2020 4:36 PM, Kenneth Gene Waugh wrote:
> Totally new tack, but Brad Loomis, I recall how terrible Polio was in 
> the first half of the 50s. My Dad was  PhD with the Animal Husbandry 
> Dept at NC State; we lived on a couple acres out on what is now Penny 
> Road, was Rt 4 then. One summer, around 53-4, the Polio was so bad 
> that us kids spent the summer on Mother's childhood farm in 
> Indiana---and trust me, my folks were not alarmists---the Polio was 
> simply that terrible.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 3:39 PM <bradloomis at charter.net 
> <mailto:bradloomis at charter.net>> wrote:
>
>     As was my father. 1 class short of dual engineering degrees in 4
>     years at NC State, civil and mechanical. He spent the war
>     developing sound tracking torpedoes for the Navy, spending time at
>     sea.  As an engineer, not in uniform. He would have been in his
>     30s. Sadly polio killed him four months before I was born in 52.
>     Brad
>
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>     My dad was called up for WII, but didn’t serve. His boss made an
>     argument that he was un-replaceable at his job and they needed him
>     above everybody else. He was deferred from serving.
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