Uncle Hugh 'Murphy' Miller: war 'hero,' cool guy

 AboutAnything  | Greg McComb   Whenever I look at this picture of my great-uncle Hugh, (under x) my first thought is always 'he must have been a really-cool guy.' It's one of my favorites in a vast collection of ancestry photos.      I mean, look at the guy. A cigarette dangling  from his lip, his steel helmet tilted-fashionably right, and then there is the sleeveless-sheepskin vest, possibly donated from as far off as Australia, and shipped to the front by the Red Cross.  These vests were the only thing standing between a soldier and a bad case of frostbite during months of winter-trench warfare in France.    You see, this is a photo of Hugh's unit taken...

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How to get fit and stay fit, twenty years later (part 4, medical care)

 AboutAnything  | Greg McCombYears ago, a visit to your doctor's office was a bit scary, at least for me. Your doctor was  viewed as a person of reverence - almost priest-like - and highly respected in your community. They usually wore a rumpled-white coat and had a stethoscope drooped around their neck.  A small-rubber hammer was close-at-hand; soon your doctor would tap your knees to test your reflexes, a practice abandoned by all but a few doctors nowadays.     All-of-this is nothing like the photo above of a couple of smartly-dressed modern doctors, engaged in conversation while researching the latest medical findings on their laptop.    Back then, I'm talking about ...

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