Jews and Americans

John F. Kennedy and the Green Berets: The rhetorical use of the hero myth

“…We understand quickly and completely the rules of the Cowboy and Indian game, and what it means to invoke it in a place like Vietnam. 76 John F. Kennedy did not invent the hero myth; that occurred thousands of years before he was born. Nor did he invent the uniquely American myth of the Frontier Hero; it preceded him by more than a hundred years.…”