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Rhetorical Analysis Of Richard Brinkley's 'Tour Of Duty'
On the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Reagan chose the battalion subtitle as a rhetorical peg on which to hang a commemoration of all the US war effort, a vanity which worked beautifully. Brinkley (Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam war) begins with the story of the Reagan called aggression in which one company of these elite troops climbed a hundred feet Omaha Beach cliff to attack what was considered a German artillery battery capable of ruining landing. Firearms are not there; German resistance was; more than half of the Rangers were injured. The story then jumps forward in search of an appropriate topic for Reagan-topic 40th birthday, he chose pink on his respect for WWII veterans (his eyesight kept him in the US) - And Speechwriting
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