He used his families charm and connections to win over the public and his fathers enormous wealth to advertise himself. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, once said, “It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what people think you are.” (9 Hostages to Fortune, 1990) He only let the public see a good, hard working American man. Many people did not know that Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease and lived a life of pain. As a politician in his early career, Kennedy was all style. This changed however, when he became a senator.
Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed that rage at Kennedy's murder was the motive for his action. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder. With all this evidence on Lee Harvey Oswald he must have been the one who killed Kennedy right? But what about all the other conspiracy’s? And why did Jack Ruby kill Oswald?
Fitzgerald tells us of his first life regrets as a young man. He says that his two regrets are that he never was “big enough (or good enough) to play football in college, and at not getting overseas during the war”’ (“The Crack Up” 1). He was still a successful man at the time, starting his journey to fame and success, but couldn’t forgive himself for not being able to get to his goals. He says that he would think about those things, and turned them into daydreams of personal heroism of running into the end zone in the Princeton Orange and Black, fantasies that he thought were good enough to fall asleep to on a stressful night (“The Crack Up” 1). Later in his first essay, he finally talks about how it is that he finally “cracked.” One of his lines reads “ten years this side of forty-nine, I suddenly realized I had prematurely cracked,” because he had spent the past few years simply not caring (“The Crack Up” 2).
This is the reason why Adam wants to join to the marines. He didn’t want to wait until next year because he thought the war might be over by then. Adam asked his grandfather to give him a permission to join the marines because his mom didn’t permission to him. Finally, he joins the marines with his grandfather’s permission. Now, Adam is in the marines, training in boot camp for the battles ahead.
He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it. “It had nothing to do with mortality. Embarrassment, that's all it was” (O’Brien 59). That same feeling of embarrassment is what made half of the soldiers go to Vietnam. Jimmy Cross went to war only because his friends did, and that led him to danger.
The Involvement of Lee Harvey Oswald in the JFK Assassination John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy was known to some Americans as one of the greatest president by far to serve office with that much attention you are bound to have some enemies throughout the world. On 26 November, 1963 Kennedy was assassinated while riding in his presidential Limousine in Dallas, Texas (Carter). Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested just forty minuets after Kennedy’s assassination for the murder of a police officer (Whalen). The Warren commission Report, an 889 page final report of the president’s assassination, reported that Lee Harvey Oswald was the one and only gunman. (“Warren”).
He doesn’t notice how fast he runs, but is discovered by a group of college football coaches that are willing to give him a full scholarship if he plays on their team. Although his mental handicap, he is given the opportunity to obtain a college degree. After college, Forrest chooses to join the military, spending years in Vietnam fighting. While fighting, his battalion meets a situation with gunfire and grenades all exploding all around them. Using his ability to run, he ran and ran until he carried members into safety.
As the audience reads more into Frank’s stories, we get an idea that he wasn’t supportive of his son joining the United States military in the beginning. This tone that Frank uses is a pathos form of writing which helps the audience connect with the author. As he drives home from taking his son to boot camp, the author loses his way home a couple times, to not knowing how to feel about John leaving. Schaeffer paints a picture of being discombobulated. Although Frank questions himself saying “Why the hell is John joining the military” (630) by the end, we have an author who is very proud and glad..
Wilfred Owen uses contrast in this poem to help show the major changes for example “ There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year. Now, he is old; his back will never brace” This talks about before the war he would have people wanting his picture. But now no-one wants to see him, he looks old even though he is still young and his back will not support him. Many soldiers lost their limbs in battle and this poem helps people realise the pain the soldiers went through both physical and mental. “Mental Cases” is about the men who went crazy due to the events of World War I. it helps explain how these men looked with the use of half-rhymes, metaphors and similes “ drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring teeth that leer like skullls teeth wicked?” This talks about what the men looked like after going crazy.
Cohen comments on two great leaders in military, “One of our greatest military leaders was General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. He eventually became the U.S. Air Force’s second Chief of Staff. General Robert Danforth who was Commandant of Cadets at West Point when General Vandenberg was a cadet told me an amazing story. “General Vandenberg was not a natural leader. In fact, we almost dismissed him from the Academy for lack of leadership ability at the end of his first year.