Practice Task 2. Directions: Read and identify the type of speech given below. Write your answer on the line provided before the number.
1. My own first personal memory of war was in 1968. As a 16-year-old
dishwasher in a small diner in upstate New York, I watched a Vietnam veteran get off the
bus, coming back from his first tour of duty in Vietnam, to be met by his family. And at a
time in our history when heroes were hard to find, I thought I'd found one. I'd never seen
anybody so handsome, so physical, so determined, so proud. Captain John Graham
Captain John Graham was his name. And he is a big part of the reason I went to West
Point.
Remarks at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
General Martin E. Dempsey​