Before we get to the analysis part of this assignment, the speech I decided to follow is former President Ronald Reagan's speech on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the D -Day which was delivered at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, on June 6, 1984. This is the speech I wanted to use for my analytical article because I have always been extremely interested in World War II and everything affiliated with it. Also, I actually had two grandfathers who served in the Philippines fighting alongside American soldiers as guerrillas against the Japanese invaders during the war. President Reagan gave the speech but, to my mild disappointment, he didn't actually prepare it himself. The speech was actually written by Peggy Noonan, the principal author and special assistant to President Reagan. After reading and watching footage of the speech, I found that it was a great collaboration between the speaker and the writer. President Reagan's 40th anniversary D-Day speech was delivered exactly forty years after D-Day, the Normandy landings on the beach. on June 6, 1944 in Normandy, France. More specifically, he delivered the speech at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, where U.S. Army Rangers scaled cliffs to take out German artillery emplacements raining shells onto the beaches of Omaha, Utah, Gold , Juno and Sword, where other Allied forces were located. landing. Although the German artillery was no longer there once they got to the top, the guns replaced by telephone poles disguised to resemble the artillery mentioned by the aerial surveillance, the Rangers fought their way inland until they found and then destroyed the cannons. The very first sentence goes right into the speech without hesitation and exposes the thesis that...... middle of paper......, 1 March). Peggynoonan.com. Retrieved March 10, 2014, from Peggy Noonan's biography: http://www.peggynoonan.com/biographyc/4. Noonan, P. (1984, June 6). Remarks at the U.S.-French ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, D-Day, June 6, 1984. Retrieved March 24, 2014, from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library: http://www.reaganfoundation.org /tgcdetail.aspx?args_a=cms&args_b=1&argsb=N&h1=0&h2=0&lm=reagan&p=TG0923RRS&sw=&tx=17425. Reagan, R. (1984, June 6). Normandy Speech: Ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, D-day at Point-du-Hoc. Retrieved March 9, 2014, from youtube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I&list=FLF2f9pm57gBaWPqzY_jRIoQ&index=506. Reagan, R. (1984, June 6). Youtube.com. Retrieved March 19, 2014, from youtube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDZdFQY3iM