Hi all!
It is very important right now with what looks like the end of the war in Gaza to support the health needs of the Palestinians people. The main reasons polio has not been eradicated from the world is confict and poverty. Gaza strip has both. Rotary International takes no sides, does not play politics or exclude anyone for any reason.
Please take a minute click on the link and Linda & I support Rotary in their effort to stop Polio and many other diseases around our world. Eveyln would be proud>
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Thank you, Linda and Vinnie

From Autobiography of Evelyn Holmer Wordell ( Bridgeport, CT)
Excerpts from Opening chapter

“Paralysis” The word struck the ears of Elsa and Carl Holmer with an unreal hollow sound. It
echoed incongruously in the bright little room of Baby Lynn just as it had in scores of other New England homes. The dread disease in that year of 1912 had stalked like a grim specter over the countryside, touching baby arms and legs, dooming scores of children to a helpless,
or at best a handicapped existence.
“She will never walk again. She will never walk again.” Those words were to echo and
reecho through the room in the days that followed. They hammered and tore at Elsa’s mind as she moved about the house…. But, Doctor, she won’t die?....
The Doctor answered slowly, “Perhaps it is wrong of us to ask that she live.”
“You mean—?”
“When the nerves leading to the muscles are destroyed, there is no way of bringing them
back to life. She will never walk again.”
But the honorable doctor had not counted upon Elsa and Carl Holmer with their simple faith
and stubborn Scandinavian tenacity.