Henry Raymond
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Henry on May 03, 2005, 07:47:34 AM
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Hi All,
For those of you that have cable or a satellite dish and get HBO, there is a movie on this month called "Warm Springs" that tells the story of the only U.S. president re-elected three times who brilliantly led America through the Great Depression and World War II. But the toughest challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever faced was one the country never saw. Kenneth Branagh stars in this stirring true story of Roosevelt's battle after being left a paraplegic by polio in 1921. Cynthia Nixon plays his dedicated wife Eleanor who took up the mantle of the public FDR while her husband sought out a "miracle" cure in a rural Georgia health spa.
Now, not only is this a disease that the cause is not known, nor is there a cure for, but the first major epidemic in the United States was reported here in Vermont in 1894 where at least 132 cases were reported.
If you would like to check out a couple of articles on it you may click on the following links:
http://www.cloudnet.com/%7Eedrbsass/poliotimeline.htm
http://www.cloudnet.com/%7Eedrbsass/poliohistorypage.htm