Right Stuff Thesis

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History is made by men with The Right Stuff; Abraham Lincoln faced not one man but a nation. A nation torn apart, set against each other in Civil War. Abraham Lincoln displayed the Right Stuff by ending the war, freeing slaves and reuniting the nation as one. In the 1940s the military begun testing rocket propel jets. These new airplanes required certain men with unique aptitudes, ones who have the ability to push themselves, never quit, never accepted the norm and demonstrate the courage to push the envelope and set records that are still talked about till this day. These men with the Right Stuff will push the envelope until it evolved into the greatest race that the world will ever witness. These men unknowing will bring a nation together, a nation filled with pride and patriotism, simply by displaying the right stuff. Tom Wolfe describe this right stuff as one who “put his hide on the line and then have the…show more content…
One of these men has been an inspiration to many, a symbol of the right stuff, John F. Kennedy, our 35th president. The Right Stuff -as one who “put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness” to do again. After graduating from Harvard, John F. Kennedy joined the Navy and was assigned to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific as commander of a patrol torpedo boat. LT Kennedy and his crew of twelve men were in the waters of Blackett Strait during a mission when their boat was hit by a Japanese warship, two men died and LT Kennedy back was reinjured. As they swam to safety LT Kennedy heard one his men calling for help. He swam and found his man and dragged him and the rest of his men to a small island where they waited for five days to be rescued. The right stuff enabled LT Kennedy and his men to survive not only the attack but the five days as they awaited to be
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