Children: American as Apple Pie
by Alan Yurko, CPCC, Sc.
wishes to thank Barbara Flynn, who did the
original investigation into this issue)
Gruelle's 13 year-old daughter, Marcella,
was killed by a fatal vaccine reaction. The
public school she'd been attending had been
routinely inoculating children without informing
the parents. Seven doctors were called in
to make pronouncements on her death. Six determined
the cause to be vaccine-induced and the seventh
declined to comment. Interestingly, the seventh
doctor was also head of the school board and
a staunch advocate for vaccination.
death was not an immediate reaction. She died
a very slow and subtle death. In the months
after her unconsented inoculation she became
lethargic and lost her appetite. Marcella
became feverish, fatigued and hypotonic (loss
of muscle control) as her body and nervous
system fought hard against the poisons forced
into her bloodstream. At the end, she was
as limp as a ragdoll.
successful writer and illustrator, Johnny
Gruelle also created dolls. Marcella's grandmother
and he created a doll somewhat different than
the rigid, clay or composition ones of the
time, such as the Kewpie doll and others which
had erect postures and healthy demeanors.
Instead, they designed a doll which was limp
and lifeless. Raggedy Ann was marketed by
Marshall Field in 1920 and is one of the richest
pieces of Americana over 80 years later. Raggedy
Ann's limp and lifeless body is indeed a fitting
tribute to Marcella, and to all vaccine-damaged
children, as well as a symbol of the long
history of senseless and tragic deaths and
disabilities associated with vaccines.
an illustrator, Gruele had a long association
with a magazine called Physical Culture.
This came to an end in May of 1921 when asked
to illustrate an article dealing with vaccinations.
The cartoon shown below, along with his postscript,
was Johnny's response to this assignment,
which turned out to be his last for the magazine.
Ann, whose name is taken from the James Whitcombe
Riley poems, "Little Orphan Annie"
and "The Raggedy Man", is as American
as apple pie. Ironically, it is also a symbol
for over 80 years of children's deaths. Little
did many of us know, that as we played with
Raggedy Ann as children, that we were really
just practicing for when we'd get our very
own real, limp and lifeless vaccine-injured
and killed babies.
1. Flynn, Barbara, Letter to State Epidemiologist
of New Jersey, January 10, 2001: p.2
2. Tuleja, Tad, The New York Public Library
Book of Popular Americana, 1994; p. 315, Stonesong
3. Hall, Patricia, Johnny Gruele: Creator
of "Raggedy Ann and Andy," 1993;