• @qooqie
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    1511 months ago

    Gotta make sure the youth can be good little soldiers if needed

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 months ago

      This is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.

      • @Bael422
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        111 months ago

        I think it was worse than that. It was to test for and increase capability for military life, but the exercises themselves are not a good way to keep a general healthy body so it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.

        • kase
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          111 months ago

          it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.

          Wait seriously? Where did you hear that?