@Medievalist wrote:
When I was a child in the sixties* we were lined up in the elementary school gym on the first day of public school and forcibly vaccinated with a big pneumatic gun. Some kids had to be held kicking and screaming by the teachers, but most of us did not. It was a rite of passage.
You can tell my generation by the marks. Those things hurt like hell!
* "Dreams could be held through TV, with Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther King, and I believed I believed I believed...."