The Rhetorical Analysis of Frank Schaeffer’s “Military families” In his speech “Military Families” Frank schaeffer describes himself as a military father. His son is a corporal in the United States Marine Corps and was facing roadside bombs with the occasional random bullets in Afghanistan. Frank sent his two oldest kids to New York and Georgetown University when his youngest son was unexpectedly enlisted. “I wish we were still led by women and men who could honestly identify with “every mother” and father who has experienced the heart-stopping mix of pride and sorrow attending a farewell to a son or daughter who has volunteered to defend us.” Frank Schaeffer argues that every parent who has a child in the military would feel the same pain
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“I was proud of John’s service and terrified,” and, “Eleanor wrote of her wartime farewell to her sons, “I imagine every mother felt as I did when I said good-bye. Life had to go on, and you had to do what was required of you, but something inside of you died.” This part of the text reflects the emotion which affects the reader as well. This emotional tug at the heartstrings makes the reader more intuitive to the text and helps us understand or relate to him better. He informs the readers on other families, but this doesn’t fully persuade the reader of the pain and suffering that he has to go through every time he hears of a military member being killed. “According to an article by Tom Ford in the Minneapolis-St Paul star Tribune wherein he cited two experts on trends in military service, only 30 percent of the 535 members of Congress have a military background”. (5) This quote from paragraph 5 gives us information on how not a lot of families have to suffer the exact pain that all military parents have to endure. “Hillary Clinton often said that she looked to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt as role models. But there’ no evidence Senator Clinton is “very much upset” by the fact that her service-age daughter did not volunteer to fight in the war that Senator Clinton voted for”.
“I was proud of John’s service and terrified,” and, “Eleanor wrote of her wartime farewell to her sons, “I imagine every mother felt as I did when I said good-bye. Life had to go on, and you had to do what was required of you, but something inside of you died.” This part of the text reflects the emotion which affects the reader as well. This emotional tug at the heartstrings makes the reader more intuitive to the text and helps us understand or relate to him better. He informs the readers on other families, but this doesn’t fully persuade the reader of the pain and suffering that he has to go through every time he hears of a military member being killed. “According to an article by Tom Ford in the Minneapolis-St Paul star Tribune wherein he cited two experts on trends in military service, only 30 percent of the 535 members of Congress have a military background”. (5) This quote from paragraph 5 gives us information on how not a lot of families have to suffer the exact pain that all military parents have to endure. “Hillary Clinton often said that she looked to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt as role models. But there’ no evidence Senator Clinton is “very much upset” by the fact that her service-age daughter did not volunteer to fight in the war that Senator Clinton voted for”.