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General McArthur By: Patrick Lawrence

General McArthur By: Patrick Lawrence . General Douglas MacArthur. General and field marshal of the Philippine Army Chief of staff of the US Army Medal of Honor recipient WWI veteran Oversaw the occupation of Japan Head of the United Nations Command

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General McArthur By: Patrick Lawrence

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  1. General McArthur By: Patrick Lawrence

  2. General Douglas MacArthur • General and field marshal of the Philippine Army • Chief of staff of the US Army • Medal of Honor recipient • WWI veteran • Oversaw the occupation of Japan • Head of the United Nations Command • Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand • Served in the military for 52 years

  3. Background of Speech • MacArthur’s Duty, Honor, Country speech was his last speech. • MacArthur died two years later at age 84 • It was MacArthur’s final salute and farewell to the corps. • In 1960, MacArthur’s health was deteriorating rapidly. • This speech was given for receiving the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service. • MacArthur knew his final deployment was near

  4. SOAPSTONE • Subject: • “Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.” • Duty, Honor, Country is the United States Military Academy’s motto.

  5. Occasion • General MacArthur was awarded the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service to his country. This was his acceptance speech given at West Point.

  6. Audience • “General Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps!”

  7. Purpose “But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. I bid you farewell.”

  8. Speaker • General MacArthur

  9. Tone • Inspiring • Motivational • Mournful • Powerful

  10. Pathos • “Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” • Repetition that emphasizes the beginning of the cadets and their future.

  11. Pathos continued • “The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.” • Adds a sense of fear into the cadets if they do not follow the code of the Academy. • “Yours is the profession of arms,  the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory; that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed; that the very obsession of your public service must be: Duty, Honor, Country.” • This sense of fear appeals to the failure of the cadets

  12. Logos • “We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheard synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink…of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all time. And through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars.”

  13. Ethos • “But this award is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code -- the code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved land of culture and ancient descent…For all eyes and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the American soldier. That I should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride and yet of humility which will be with me always” • MacArthur is able to make connections to the cadets by adding in his personnel experiences in multiple wars.

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