Everybody knows you can’t thank a veteran without a veteran story in return, so: I served in the medical community doing pre-physical work ups on my civil service patients in South Philadelphia. It was a remote clinic administered from the Army hospital in Fort Dix, New Jersey although there was a Navy hospital just up […]
THANK A VETERAN, THEN BRACE YOURSELF
November 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie
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MENTAL CONDITIONING WITH PLATO FOR THE LIFE WIN
November 30, 2021 by David Gillaspie
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Mental conditioning and physical conditioning combine for the mind-body perfection of human beings. That’s the ideal according to Coach Plato, who was quite a combo on his own. The Athenian philosopher Plato (c.428-347 B.C.) is one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world and the entire history of Western thought. An important […]
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