A Polio Memoir
by Agnes V. Axtell
Price: $6.99 USD. 25640 words.
Published by Fideli Publishing on April 2, 2011. .
Captain Bob Axtell fought in battles in the Pacific during WWII and survived, he also survived fifteen months in the Korean Conflict, but he didn’t fight his toughest battle until he returned home. In a matter of days, he went from being a healthy man to the isolation ward at William Beaumont Army Hospital — he had become one of the early polio statistics in 1952's polio epidemic.