The Story of One of West Point’s Greatest Graduation Speeches—to Graduating Jewish Cadets in 2023
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dara Horn is an accomplished American writer, winning accolades and prizes for her fiction and non-fiction alike. She was approached to give a graduation speech to Jewish cadets at West Point in 2023. Here is Horn to tell the story of how her speech came to be—and the recorded copy of the speech she delivered. It's one of the most beautiful ever given at any graduation at any college—at any time. The subject: being uncomfortable and uncool.
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