Quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane. Because at the time when we entered the war, we did not have plans to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. He was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. It was when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i board the trains in his small town. He said there was such a sense of pride, there was son such a sense of duty and patriotism that it was infectious. In addition to obviously watching his father, that really spurred him to join the military and then i g
Hello everyone i am the codirector of Aspen Ideas Health and executive idea aspen global and sick baiters group and. Want to thank you for joining a sable but will be a fascinating conversation. While the pandemic has prevented us together in person on campus we are so excited to continue to host informative and inspiring conversations between a leading health practitioners, artists, scientists and innovators. Today we are honored to be hosting this great fascinating a breakthrough conversation with doctor lisa mosconi and Natalie Morales about doctor mosconi book the xx brain in Womens Brain Health bridge makes it her lifes work decided the female brain and this new book she provides women with a roadmap for reducing their risk of dementia. If you do not have the book yet and youre interested in buying a copy will put a link in the chat now for you to be able to get it and find more information. I would certainly recommend it is fantastic. So as we begin to dive into this conversation
David davis provides the history of the first Wheelchair Basketball Team comprise a world war ii veterans. Its a great honor to be at bromance. I spent many evenings on the second floor listening to local authors speak about their the o really appreciate the invitation. What to say hi to everybody out there who i havent i have beeo see facetoface in person, so thank you for tuning in. Obviously doubly honored ron kovic has agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Ron kovic, not kovac. Not go back. We were introduced by tom hobart, sports need a writer and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans are just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii if you are paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, and no hope or as they were called. The average life span was a
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