Act Of Valor Rhetorical Analysis

All gave some, some gave all. This statement becomes very apparent through the movie, Act of Valor. Even to the people that are against the military and who criticize these soldiers’ acts, it is obvious the sacrifices the troops make. Throughout this movie, you see the many sacrifices that the United States military men and women give on a regular basis, which are depicted in several scenes. Act of Valor, shows the struggles of war on and off the battlefield and all the sacrifices these soldiers give, even the sacrifice of one’s life. This is a story of a team of Navy SEALs and their mission to save a CIA operative. This operation then uncovers a terrorist plot to attack the United States and leads them to a major drug lord in charge. In the SEALs quest to stop this attack before it happens, a chain of events uncovers that sacrifices must be made and that the troops are always willing to pay the price of freedom and protection.

This is always a struggle that military families go through. Both the husband and the wife are making a sacrifice. The husband in this case must leave his wife, knowing that he will miss the birth of his first son. The wife is sacrificing her husband and possibly even his safety knowing that she may never see her love again. Rorke will later go on to give an even greater sacrifice. Furthermore, anytime someone takes a bullet for someone else that is always considered a sacrifice. That is exactly the case in Act of Valor. While breaching a room, in search for the missing CIA operative, one of the SEALs, Mikey, pushed his comrade out of the line of fire and took the bullet himself, in the eye. Mikey sacrificed himself for his fellow SEALs and also for the CIA operative. Mikey did live, but he did lose the eye that got