Within the speech, Duty, Honor, Country the exertion of logos plays a quaint act to establish the role of what a true soldier is in American society. The logic(logos) behind this phrase is that despite all the changes that may occur during a soldier’s life to protect the United States of America from all harm that may attempt to befall it. MacArthur’s use of logos can be noted within the following phrase, “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 seawater for our drink…of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy… And through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars”(General MacArthur). General MacArthur purposes logos within his address to the cadets at West Point Military Academy during the award ceremony for the Thayer Award. Within the speech “Duty, Honor, Country,” MacArthur utilizes the art of rhetoric to instill upon the cadets the importance of those three titular words during their service to the United States of America.

As the one receiving this prestigious award, General MacArthur truly exemplified these values as he had acquired the rank of General of the Armed Forces while serving in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. This award is given to an “…outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto, duty, honor, country” (Winston). On May 12, 1962, General Douglas MacArthur addressed the cadets at the West Point Military Academy, during the reception for the Thayer Award.

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