Ronald Reagan Eulogy

After a tragic loss for the United States of America, Thatcher reconciled the nation with her appeal to patriotism in a dire time, both politically and emotionally. At this time of great loss and tragedy following the death of a beloved president, Ronald Reagan, Thatcher used his accomplishments in life to reconcile those of the United States. Along with reconciling them, she indirectly urges, that we find our lost values that Reagan and the country possessed at the time of his presidency. Through her great use of personal examples of Reagan’s life, she urges that we understand the importance of his life and how it should parallel the situation at hand during the time of the eulogy, values he possessed that represented the nation, and how he truly …show more content…
In the first portion of the speech, “We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man, and I have lost a dear friend.” Connects us invariably to Thatcher’s purpose because of the broad range of common values mentioned in that one phrase. She completely humanized him through examples such as “Ronnie”, “transformed”, “freedom”, “prosperity”, and “sympathy” all show how he had great values and was a person just like all of us and not an emotionless figurehead. This is related back to the prominent idea of the eulogy because all of these values listed before are great examples of values that she wants us to emulate as a country because even from her standpoint she recognizes that we’re struggling. Thatcher made us want to understand his life and made connections through her way of doing so. When the war on terrorism in the United States is what everyone was talking about, this eulogy at Reagan’s funeral becomes prevalent, coming from an outside nation--Great Britain-- noticed that we were struggling and needed to bond together as a nation. Thatcher took an emotional situation and turned it into an inspirational