On this episode of Our American Stories, Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung, a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the 20th century. Our regular contributor Richard Muniz tells the story of an unforgettable accident at Ft. Irwin, California. Wendy Steele tells us how she could have never imagined that an idea for her community of Cincinnati... would have snowballed into 65 chapters across the world and over $80 million donated.

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Time Codes: 

00:00 - Trapped Inside a Tube: The Iron Lung Story

12:30 - Midnight Tragedy at the Live Fire Exercise

25:00 - 100 Women Creating Transformation In Their Own Backyard