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

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

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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.

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it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.

Wait seriously? Where did you hear that?

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Fuck yeah!

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