I was born in 61 and have one.
Born in '61, was vaccinated as a baby, but it didn’t take. The doctor told my mother not to worry, I’d get vaccinated in the military (the draft still being in effect), and sure enough, when I joined the Navy in '81, they vaccinated me and I got a dime size scar to show for it. In my case, the corpsman took a needle and dipped it a little vial of solution & jabbed me in the arm about 10 times what it…
My greatgrandfather was a survivor, but he was blinded by the disease.
My husband (born in Denmark) and I (born in the Dom. Rep.) were both born in 1970 and both have a pencil eraser-sized scar on the upper left arm.
As have I. I don’t know how big an Australian 5 cent piece is, but mine’s about a cm long, on my shoulderblade.
I think the sugar cubes were for polio. When they came out, somebody set up tents and tables outdoors at the juior high school in a nearby city and we all went to get them. As I recall there was a big bucket of sugar cubes and they would pull one out, and put a drop from a glass dropper onto the cube, and hand it to you to eat.
Of course, I have the big smallpox scar on my shoulder. My grandfather had a big and funny scar from his vaccination - his father did it in about 1895 - I think the old man got something out of a cow to smear into the boy’s arm.
My father was born in '59 and he has one… my mother was born in '61. I don’t remember ever seeing a scar on her. They were both born in mainland China, Shandong province but my dad lived in the country and my mum was from the city. I was born in '88 and have never heard of anyone from my generation with the scar.
I was born in '62 and I remember being in Kindergarten and having to wear a clear plastic dome-type thing over my vaccination site until it healed. I have a tiny scar, hardly even visible now, about the size of a pencil eraser, on my upper left arm. I recall that it itched like hell, too.
Born in 1967 in Chicago. I do still have a dime-sized scar on my upper left arm, but it is fading because my upper arms are chubby now! :o
I was born in 1971. I do not have one. They stopped that year, if I recall correctly from what my doctor told me.
Duh. In Canada.