[Senator Pardek]

That's weird. I was born in late '67. My brother was born in March '66, and he has the scar, but I don't - because they must have discontinued it at that time.

[capitan_refugio]

The vaccine was not "discontinued" per se in the 1960's. More likely, in your case, as with many other "post-boomers," the school districts around the country stopped requiring the small pox vaccine. Although I was vaccinated for small pox as a child, a few years before you were born, I still have a visible scar on my left arm. I travelled overseas on business, to the Middle East and Central America, and was able to get "re-vaccinated" in Los Angeles in the late 1970's. Only a couple of places had the vaccine available. Even though I had the scar, I had long since lost the medical records, so I got it again, along with the miserable typhus and cholera shots (in the butt!)

[jellybean]

I wasn't vaccinated until I went into the Army in 1974. My 'scar' is only the size of a pimple on my left arm. My older brothers and sisters, who were vaccinated when they were children, have the larger tell-tale scar.

[austinTparty]

well, my sis was born in 1966, too, and she was vaccinated by the same doc that didn't vaccinate me. So you must have been born in the cutoff year... well, just crossing my fingers vaccination won't be necessary for this.