Sylvanus Thayer Award

Every day 22 veterans take their lives in the form of suicide. There are many organizations that are committed to helping veterans get back on their feet. One such organization is the Gary Sinise Foundation. Every year since their conception in 2011, the foundation has severed over 68,000 meals to help homeless veterans and have built over 50 homes to help disabled veterans and their families. The founder, Gary Sinise, is a well renowned actor that has used his fame to help raise awareness for

General Douglas MacArthur delivered this speech on May 12, 1962, while accepting the Sylvanus Thayer Award at his beloved alma mater West Point military academy. During this speech, General MacArthur reflects on his life and accomplishments as an old man, and he tells the young cadets what West Point’s motto, “Duty, Honor, Country,” has meant to him in his life. Throughout this speech, Gen. MacArthur uses various repetitions, emotional appeals, symbols, and moving imagery to show the audience the

through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars,” this statement embodies Douglas Macarthur’s Speech “Duty, Honor, Country”. It was given in 1962 in acceptance of the Thayer Award, “The Award given… citizen of the United States, whose outstanding character, … comparison to the qualities for which West Point strives, in keeping with its motto - Duty, Honor, Country.” (AOGUSMA) It has been presented to other distinguished leaders