Proposal for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Peoples’ positions on the Vietnam War, and war in general, affected the response to the proposed Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Write a letter that someone might have sent to U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt in support of or to protest the building of the memorial. Your letter should contain a thesis sentence completing the statement, “The Department of the Interior should ___________ (approve/reject) Maya Lin’s design because _____________.” Your letter should include three reasons or examples to support your argument. Try to use each type of rhetorical appeal below to make your letter as persuasive as possible: appeal to logic (a claim based on fact and reason)
appeal to emotion (a claim based on shared feelings, such as fear or pride)
appeal to ethics (a claim based on shared idea of what we think is right) | 
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