Luttrell Interview

During today's discussion of Luttrell's Lone Survivor, Alex mentioned an interview with Luttrell about the book in which he references his reasons for writing it. During the interview, as Alex pointed out in class, Luttrell notes that "the top Navy Brass gave me a special mission to write a book about [Operation Red Wing]."

You may listen to the interview here.

As we began to discuss in class, Luttrell's situation as a service member writing about a classified mission complicates ethos in fascinating ways; this situation reveals, perhaps in a way we had not yet considered, the complexity of the rhetorical situation and the dynamic between participants involved in the situation, and the intricacy of composition.

Thanks, Alex, for passing along this clip.