American journalist, Leonard Pitts, in his speech, We’ll go forward in this moment, ridicules the terrorists’ attempt to disunite America by attacking the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Pitts’ purpose is to impose a sense of strength and unity among the American people and to encourage us to give the terrorists a taste of their own medicine. He adopts and abhorrent tone in order to inspire the people of America to come together and take action. Pitts implies throughout his speech that America must lock arms and retaliate against the terrorists. He appeals to the ethical side of the audience by asking, “Did you want to tear us apart?”, then answering, “You just brought us together” (4). Pitts is leading his audience to the final