Cheers,
Earl
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That was before my time so I only know it from history books. Those in later generations than you don’t have the mark of the beast on our arms either. But people the same age as me & younger from other countries do have the smallpox vaccine scar just like the oldies in the US. Things were rough back in the day is all I can figure, still are in some other countries.
Yup
I used to have one of those, but like most of my old scars, they have become very hard to see. . . .
I was one of those that flinched. Mistake. I often wondered how much vaccine actually got into me or how much ran down my arm.
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Before deploying to Viet Nam in the Navy we had to go through lines with corpsmen on both sides inoculating into both arms with those machines. We got a lot of vaccines for what I don’t remember.
Many years later it was discovered that the “guns” were responsible for spreading Hep C.
among other things like dirty tattoo parlors and many of the ladies entertaining the troops.
Boy, talk about hazardous duty!
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USN Boot Camp, San Diego, October 1965. Corpsman on each side held arm firmly from the back and shot into the upper arm. Zit-Zit, just as in the article. Cholera shot was injected into lower bicep, by needle. Lots more shots in the next 28 years in the Navy.
I was 6 or 7 when I received the rubella vaccine with that thing.
Real men carried a Zippo.
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In early January 1975 at age 18, I attended US Navy boot camp in Orlando, FL and during those first couple of days received the standard mix of inoculations, many were administered with jet injectors, with the rest by hypodermic needles. The entire process was a nothing burger for me and ALMOST all of the dozens of men processed at the same time. And sometime in the latter 1960’s I received the smallpox vaccine by multiple stabs with a shallow- needled, multi-pronged device, that didn’t leave a scar on my upper left arm. These two experiences of mine prove that people react differently to what life throws at them. Further, we are constantly bombarded with all kinds of scientific studies, surveys, tests, etc., about so many subjects, the results of which the general population swallows up without self-study or research. WTF? At the end of the day, I don’t have a scar on my arm and I was shot a whole bunch of times with jet injectors. Still alive and kicking at almost 69 years old and with 40 years at sea.
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Lining up in my grade school gym.
Ummmph!, move on!!