You had me going there... ;-)
Kennedy's 50 mile walk was nothing-much historically.
In 1831 young Abraham Lincoln took a flat-boat to New Orleans, then walked the 800 miles back to Springfield, Illinois.
In 1865, at the end of the war, one of my great-grandfathers also walked home from New Orleans to Illinois.
And how many thousands of pioneers walked thousands of miles carrying their stuff, to California, Oregon & Washington?
So my point is: even Kennedy's 50 mile march program wasn't much of a big deal by historical standards, but how many young people are doing such things today?
“So my point is: even Kennedy’s 50 mile march program wasn’t much of a big deal by historical standards, but how many young people are doing such things today? “
I got my oldest kid up and down the Upper Yosemite Falls Trail. It was a one-day hike - but considered quite challenging. But he had the right attitude (I told him that I’d stop calling him a wimp if he made it without complaining). We got up at 0500, hit the trail at 0545, and were back by mid-afternoon.
He’s as much of a video-game superhero as the hypothetical kids that I mentioned here, but he made that hike. And now treat him with some respect.
It just goes to show that, even today, people can do a lot - but not if they’re PAMPERED.