One of the toughest types of speeches to address is one that deals exclusively with tragedy. One does not simply write about tragedy. It takes a lot of effort to deliver a sorrowful speech of tragedy. In some speeches, the speaker gets right to the point on the first sentence. Others, however, give a small introduction before telling the main point of the speech. Talking about an event that still troubles many different people is hard. No one wants to hurt someone's feelings or help them remember the tragedy of the incident. Those are the two main reasons people do not like to bring up past tragedies.
Writing a tragedy speech to my peers would be difficult. In order to deliver the speech you have to make sure your voice sounds informative yet sympathetic at the same type. Without enough sympathy, the speaker sounds as if he or she doesn't care about what they are talking about: the tragedy. It would be very troubling to me to talk about a tragedy to a group of people. I am not a person that likes to give speeches to an audience, let alone deliver a speech which consists of bad news. If I was talking to an audience that was primarily from Iraq I would make sure I would not offend them in anyway. The fault of 9/11 was the hijackers of the planes, not the country from which the hijackers were from. Pointing the finger at a whole country due to the actions of a few individuals is wrong.
I agree that people avoid talking about tragedies because it can be difficult to address them. You never know how your audience will react. In writing to your peers what would you focus on as the topic-- the tragedy itself, its impact, or both?
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