A comparison essay on Bush's Sept. 11 speech and Roosevelt's Dec 7 speech.

A TIME OF WAR FOR PEACE War has been apart of history since the beginning of our time. America won its independence from Great Britain to become a free nation. America has been participants in many foreign wars to help defend against who we thought were the enemy. Two such wars struck American soil and struck the American people. Both of these attacks were soon followed with a speech by the President reassuring his people …

…world."(Bush cnn.com) The fact that we were brought into these situations unknowingly and the way it demolished the ordinary lives that we lived proved how important it was for the president to instill the victory of war in our minds and that we would be a stronger nation for it. The two speeches that were discussed provided our nation, in a time of need, with the security and reassurance that we desperately needed.