Childhood Diseases To follow up on the September 15 post " Power Your Memories, Tell the Stories ", here are some stories that you have sent us about childhood diseases before vaccines were available. Thank you to everybody who shared their memories here.   Polio Stories American Red Cross fundraising campaign featuring Howard Keel--submitted by Karen Harrison Karen Harrison:   My husband Paul is back row 3rd from left being held by a nurse. The hospital was Cabot Kaiser in Santa Monica and they had Howard Keel come and take photos with the children and he signed their 8x10 photos. It was a fundraiser for American Red Cross who paid a good amount of the bills for these poor children. Paul was in the hospital for six months and part of his rehabilitation was swimming in the pool there so he became a good swimmer. MaryLynn --Karen, thank you for this wonderful picture with Howard Keel.  I remember the newsreels at the movies in the late 1940s and early...