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To: sharktrager
Actually, FDR didn't contract polio until he was an adult:

Tragedy struck, however, in 1921. Roosevelt contracted polio, a terrifying and incurable disease that left him paralyzed in his legs.

As he was born in 1882, he would have been 39 in 1921.

5 posted on 09/20/2004 7:45:23 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

Thanks for the correction.


6 posted on 09/20/2004 7:49:30 AM PDT by sharktrager (Nobody deserves our hostility when they are in a time of need.)
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